cockcrow

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
24
Letters
8

Definition of cockcrow

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light
    “I put the chief of police behind the bar, instructed him in his duties, and we four convivial spirits sprawled along the counter drinking ale and telling yarns till cockcrow.”

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Etymology

From Middle English cok crowe (also as cokkes crowe), equivalent to cock + crow. Likely a suppletive variation of Old English hancrǣd (“cockcrow, dawn”, literally “cock-crowing”), from hana (“cock, rooster”) + crǣd (“crowing”).

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