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Definition of Cock-a-doodle-doo
1. Noun. An imitation of the crow of a cock.
Definition of Cock-a-doodle-doo
1. Noun. The cry of the rooster. ¹
2. Interjection. The cry of the rooster. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cock-a-doodle-doo
Literary usage of Cock-a-doodle-doo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"127 COCK A DOODLE DOO Cock a doodle doo! My dame has lost her shoe; ... Cock a
doodle doo! What is my dame to do? Till master finds his fiddling stick, ..."
2. The Army of the Potomac: Behind the Scenes. A Diary of Unwritten History by Alfred Lewis Castleman (1863)
"ALEXANDRIA, SEPTEMBER 6TH, 1802 WONDERFUL CAMPAIGN COMMENCED " cock-a-doodle-doo "
PROSPECTIVE, AMENDE HONORABLE CURE FOR HOME SICKNESS SOUTH MOUNTAIN ..."
3. The Young and Field Literary Readers by Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field (1916)
"cock-a-doodle-doo cock-a-doodle-doo! My dame lias lost her shoe; My master's lost
his fiddling-stick, ... cock-a-doodle-doo! What is my dame to do ? ..."
4. Here and Now Story Book: Two-to Seven Year Olds, Experimental Stories by Lucy Sprague Mitchell (1921)
"So he threw his head way back and he opened his beak wide and he
crowed: "cock-a-doodle-doo, cock-a-doodle-doo, I'm twice as smart as you,
cock-a-doodle-doo ..."
5. The Folk-lore Readers: Book Two by Eulalie Osgood Grover (1914)
"cock-a-doodle-doo! What is my dame to do? Till master finds his fiddling stick,
... cock-a-doodle-doo! My dame has found her shoe, And master's found his ..."
6. Bombay Ducks: An Account of Some of the Every-day Birds and Beasts Found in by Douglas Dewar (1906)
"... THE cock-a-doodle-doo EVER since that far-off day in the prehistoric past,
when some unknown Aryan shikari captured a pair of Callus ferrugineus and ..."
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