06-15-2003, 02:14 AM
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Use of the word 'cock' in English as a reference to a male human rather than a rooster, is attributed to Chaucer, in England, in 1386.
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The origin of the word "cock" is evident in the echoic explosive "cock-a-doodle-doo," the sunrise declaration of a rooster. "Cock" is from both the Old English and Old French coc, where it originated as teh echoic name for a male chicken. Most languages use an echoic for a rooster and his call.
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