cockerel

English

Etymology

From Middle English kokerel. By surface analysis, cock +‎ -rel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒkəɹəl/, /ˈkɒkɹəl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑkəɹəl/, /ˈkɑkɹəl/

Noun

cockerel (plural cockerels)

1. A young male chicken.
   • 1941, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie:

     “Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.”

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     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: пе́тле (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 Georgian: ყვინჩილა (q̇vinčila) German: Hähnchen (de) n, Junghahn m, junger Hahn m Greek: πετεινάρι (el) n (peteinári), κοκοράκι (el) n (kokoráki) Hungarian: kiskakas (hu) Italian: galletto (it) m, pollastra (it) f, pollastro (it) m Khiamniungan Naga: vēupōngtshòu Latvian: gailēns m Macedonian: петле n (petle) Manx: eean kellee m Ottoman Turkish: خروسجق (horozcuk) Polish: kogucik (pl) m Portuguese: frango (pt) m Punjabi: Shahmukhi: کُکَڑ (kukaṛ) Romanian: cocoșel (ro) m Russian: петушо́к (ru) m (petušók) Slovak: kohútik m Spanish: gallo (es) m, gallito (es) m Swahili: jimbi (sw) Tagalog: tatandangin Talysh: سوک (suk) Volapük: higokül Yakut: бөтүүкчээн (bötüükceen)

See also

• chicken
• hen
• rooster