cock-a-doodle-doo
Americaninterjection
noun
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the loud crow of a cock.
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Baby Talk. a rooster.
verb (used without object)
interjection
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cock-a-doodle-doo
First recorded in 1565–75; fanciful imitative
Example Sentences
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"Like Richard Duke of Normandy My hero fought most bravely, All trembled when they heard his crow: Cockadoodledoo!"
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich
He spared no pains for his lady love, For her he scratched below, above, She heard with ecstasy his crow: Cockadoodledoo!
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich
Do you not upon occasions vary your Cockadoodledoo with Cackadaddledaa?
From Chantecler Play in Four Acts by Rostand, Edmond
"Of genius boasts my hero not, And poetry did not fall to his lot, Yet do I love indeed his crow: Cockadoodledoo!"
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich
The Hen gave the Rooster the Water, the Water washed down the grain of corn, and thereupon the Rooster jumped up, flapped his wings, and merrily crowed: "Cockadoodledoo!"
From The Shoemaker's Apron A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Fillmore, Parker
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