cochin

¹ American  

[koh-chin, koch-in] / ˈkoʊ tʃɪn, ˈkɒtʃ ɪn /

noun

1. one of an Asian breed of chickens, resembling the Brahma but slightly smaller.

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Cochin ² American  

[koh-chin] / ˈkoʊ tʃɪn /

noun

1. a former state in southwestern India; merged with Travancore 1949; a part of Kerala state since 1956.

2. former name of Kochi.

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Cochin British  

/ ˈkɒtʃ-, ˈkəʊtʃɪn /

noun

1. a region and former state of SW India: part of Kerala state since 1956

2. Local official name: Kochi.  a port in SW India, on the Malabar Coast: the first European settlement in India, founded by Vasco da Gama in 1502: shipbuilding, engineering. Pop: 596 473 (2001)

3. a large breed of domestic fowl, with dense plumage and feathered legs, that originated in Cochin China

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Etymology

Origin of cochin

First recorded in 1850–55; short for Cochin-China fowl

Example Sentences

Bound and round the great stone well flew the cochin, but she was finally caught and thrashed and deprived of that polonie.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon

They’re exactly like that little buff cochin rooster you laugh at, because he tries to crow and strut before he knows how.

From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Ritchie, Lily Munsell

A su mag xxjx de agosto de cochin a 23 de Dics de 1522.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

The black pig, blind with jealous rage and mortification at being beaten on the tape by a cochin china, had borne violently down upon the booth and upset it, with wicked grunts of satisfaction.

From The Brother of Daphne by Yates, Dornford

I'm after thinking, sir, you'll have killed Widow McSwan's cochin cock.

From Mr. Punch in the Highlands by Various