Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗Expression of annoyance.
To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired. · To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted. · To erect; to turn up. · To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *keukô Proto-Germanic *kukkaz Proto-West Germanic *kokk Old English cocc Middle English cok English cock From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, from the same origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.
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