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Webster 1913 Edition

Cockerel

Cock′er-el

,

Noun.

[Prob. a double dim. of

cock

.]

A young cock.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cockerel

COCKEREL

,

Noun.

A young cock.

Definition 2024

cockerel

cockerel

English

Noun

cockerel ‎(plural cockerels)

A young male chicken.
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  
  He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.

Related terms

cock

Translations

young male chicken

Bulgarian: петле (bg) n ‎(pétle)
Catalan: pollastre (ca), pollet (ca), butza (ca) (quan encara no té plomes)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小公雞, 小公鸡 ‎(xiǎo gōngjī)
Czech: kohoutek (cs) m
Dalmatian: poluastro m
Danish: hanekylling
Dutch: haantje (nl) n
Estonian: kukepoeg
Finnish: kukonpoika
French: coquelet (fr) m
German: Hähnchen (de) n
Greek: πετεινάρι (el) n ‎(peteinári), κοκοράκι (el) n ‎(kokoráki)

Hungarian: kiskakas
Italian: galletto (it) m, pollastra (it) f, pollastro m
Latvian: gailēns m
Macedonian: петле n ‎(pétle)
Manx: eean kellee m
Polish: kogucik (pl) m
Portuguese: frango (pt) m
Romanian: cocoșel (ro) m
Russian: петушо́к (ru) m ‎(petušók)
Slovak: kohútik m
Spanish: gallo (es) m, gallito m
Swahili: jimbi (sw)
Tagalog: tatandangin
Talysh: سوک ‎(suk)

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