fighting cock
Americannoun
noun
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another name for gamecock
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a pugnacious person
Example Sentences
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“I made a deal with the first person who commented and because of his excitement to get the fighting cock, he hurriedly left work and met me,” she told Reuters.
From Reuters • Oct. 2, 2020
“The popular poetry of Nicanor Parra is red and palpitating like a fighting cock crowing in the ring,” wrote literary critic Fernando Alegria in “Literature and Revolution.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2018
He described the moment the typhoon hit: "Ten o'clock in the morning very strong. The sound of the wind is like a fighting cock, very noisy."
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2014
He's got a fighting cock tied to a post, and a small fire smoldering beneath a bag of fish and a half-dozen splayed carcasses the size of Nerf footballs.
From Slate • Feb. 29, 2012
"I'm feeling so much like a fighting cock this morning," he said, "I think I'll tackle that paper on surgical diseases of the pancreas that I have to read at Baltimore next month!"
From The White Linen Nurse by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
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