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cock-a-doodle-doo

American  
[kok-uh-dood-l-doo] / ˈkɒk əˌdud lˈdu /

interjection

  1. (used as a conventionalized expression to suggest the crowing of a rooster, as in stories for children.)

noun

plural

cock-a-doodle-doos

  1. the loud crow of a cock.

  2. Baby Talk. a rooster.

verb (used without object)

cock-a-doodle-dooed, cock-a-doodle-dooing

  1. to crow.

cock-a-doodle-doo British  
/ ˌkɒkəˌduːdəlˈduː /

interjection

  1. an imitation or representation of a cock crowing

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Etymology

Origin of cock-a-doodle-doo

First recorded in 1565–75; fanciful imitative

Example Sentences

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Cock a doodle doo, My dame has lost her shoe; My master's lost his fiddle-stick, And knows not what to do.

From Denslow's Mother Goose by Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)

Cock a doodle doo, My dame has lost her shoe; My master’s lost his fiddlestick, And knows not what to do.

From The Only True Mother Goose Melodies Without Addition or Abridgement by Unknown

Doodle doo, or Cock a doodle doo; a childish appellation for a cock, in imitation of its note when crowing.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

I and thou and the miller's cow--" said she, to the prince, as she again took him to her bosom, while she laughed and sang: "Cock a doodle doo!

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

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