cockerel
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈkɒkəɹəl/, /ˈkɒkɹəl/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈkɑkəɹəl/, /ˈkɑkɹəl/
Noun

cockerel (plural cockerels)

  1. A young male chicken.
    • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], 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.
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