cockcrow

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light countable,uncountable
    — I put the chief of police behind the bar, instructed him in his duties, and we four convivial spirits sprawled along the counter drinking ale and telling yarns till cockcrow.

词形变化

cockcrows plural cock-crow alternative

词源

From Middle English cok crowe (also as cokkes crowe), equivalent to cock + crow. Likely a suppletive variation of Old English hancrǣd (“cockcrow, dawn”, literally “cock-crowing”), from hana (“cock, rooster”) + crǣd (“crowing”).
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