cock-up

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mistake. Commonwealth,mildly,slang,vulgar
    — If the zodiac was already developed in 2000 BC, it must have been kept as a cult secret or in some non-Babylonian country; this would be a 1500-year conspiracy theory. More likely is the individual cockup theory, viz. the naivety of Eudoxus himself.
  2. A superior letter; a lower-case letter placed above the baseline and made smaller than ordinary script; traditionally used in abbreviations. Ireland,UK,obsolete
    — The first word of every section or chapter is generally put in small capitals, after a small neat cock-up letter.
  3. A roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun. Scotland,obsolete
    — Cockernonie, a gathering up of the hair of women, after a fashion similar to that of the modern "chignon," and sometimes called a "cock-up." Mr. Kirkton, of Edinburgh, preaching against "cock-ups"—of which chignons were the representatives a quarter of a century ago—said: "I have been all this year preaching against the vanity of women, yet I see my own daughter in the kirk even now with as high a 'cock-up' as any one of you all."

词形变化

cock-ups plural

词汇关系

近义词
bun chignon
相关词
cock up cocked-up

词源

A deverbal from cock up.
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