cockerel
noun
a young domestic cock.
cockerels
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pluralof cockerel.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Owner Amey James was told she would be fined if the animals - specifically the geese and cockerels - were not hushed.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2021
Critics say that backyard flock owners’ demand for day-old pullets, or female chicks, leads to more cockerels, or male chicks, being culled or slipping through to eventually wind up in need of homes or dumped.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018
In the late 1960s, the International Dairy Federation paid Yudkin to conduct sugar studies in pigs, rats, cockerels, and humans.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018
There was also a thing about people bringing cockerels to the matches – in the 1960s, I think – because the cockerel was on the club’s badge.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017
Probably everyone has seen two young cockerels, standing with their bills together, apparently lost in a Buddhistic reverie, suddenly broken by violence.
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Henry Wallace Phillips
