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cockcrow
Cockcrow (noun) means Early morning, when a rooster first crows; dawn.
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Early morning, when a rooster first crows; dawn.
"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."
— Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (1929)
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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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What is the meaning of cockcrow?
"cockcrow" (noun) means early morning, when a rooster first crows; dawn.
What is another word for cockcrow?
Other words for "cockcrow" include daybreak, sunup, aurora, morning, dayspring, sunrise.
