cock-a-doodle-doo
Americaninterjection
noun
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cock-a-doodle-doos
plural
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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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That morning cock-a-doodle-doo is real, and it’s not just a dawn thing.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2023
And some of the roosters' crows sounded conspicuously like the drawn out cock-a-doodle-doo of their barnyard brethren, rather than the truncated calls of red junglefowl.
From Nature ● Jan. 19, 2016
Do cocks crow "cock-a-doodle-doo"? At least it is close enough to explain the word.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2016
A nearby bowl crawled with flies as goats wandered by and cockerels sang cock-a-doodle-doo.
From The Guardian ● May 26, 2015
To "cock-a-doodle-doo" at any suggestion is to treat it with scorn and derision, and to assume the very opposite of that receptive attitude which enables a suggestion to affect us.
From The Law and the Word by T. (Thomas) Troward
Unlike other cases such as cock-a-doodle-doos or words for “nose,” these words don’t share a meaning, but a function.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
The two of them come off best together in a song-and-dance number, Well, Did You Evah?, in which Bing boo-boo-boos as Sinatra cock-a-doodle-doos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thereupon all the cocks in the vicinity responded with prolonged "cock-a-doodle-doos."
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Gustave Flaubert
The ringleaders among them departed in rebellious spirits, which fizzed over in the playground into a series of aggressive cock-a-doodle-doos, significant of their attitude of annoyance.
From The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil
This is where Lozano’s nerves, already frayed by constant cock-a-doodle-dooing, almost snapped.
From Washington Times ● May 28, 2018
I remember the sounds best of all—the rain pelting the roof with unrelenting force, the roosters cock-a-doodle-dooing just before sunrise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2016
I have always considered you a respectable man and now you say things like that about the cock-a-doodle-dooing.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
She never goes out, and such things as eggs can't come from mere cock-a-doodle-dooing.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
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