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• cock, old cock —    Used mainly by British male speakers to other men in a friendly way. The expression dates from the seventeenth century and derives from the slang use of ‘cock’ to mean a man who fights with great courage. ‘He has drawn blood of him yet. Well… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• old —    A frequently used vocative element, meant to indicate affectionate familiarity in most cases, and usually addressed to a man.    ‘Old boy’ has in recent times been one of the most popular combinations, followed by ‘old man’ and ‘old chap’.… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• Cock Sparrer (album) — Cock Sparrer Studio album by Cock Sparrer Released 1978 …   Wikipedia

• Cock (surname) — Cock Two chefs in the process of cooking. Origin Word/Name Dutch and Flemish …   Wikipedia

• Cock Sparrer — live in London Background information Origin London, England …   Wikipedia

• Old King Cole (film) — Old King Cole is a 1933 Disney cartoon in the Silly Symphonies series, based on several nursery rhymes and fairy tales, including Old King Cole. It was directed by David Hand and released on July 29, 1933. It s a remake of the 1931 Silly Symphony …   Wikipedia

• cock|a|trice — «KOK uh trihs», noun. 1. a serpent in old stories whose look was supposed to cause death. The cockatrice was believed to be hatched by a serpent from a cock s egg. It was usually represented as part cock and part serpent. 2. a venomous serpent… …   Useful english dictionary

• Cock o' the Walk — est un court métrage d animation américain de la série des Silly Symphonies produit par Walt Disney et sorti le 30 novembre 1935[1]. Ce film est inspiré de la fable Les Deux Coqs (1678) de Jean de La Fontaine[2] …   Wikipédia en Français

• cock — ► NOUN 1) a male bird, especially of a domestic fowl. 2) vulgar slang a man s penis. 3) Brit. informal nonsense. 4) a firing lever in a gun which can be raised to be released by the trigger. 5) a stopcock. ► VERB 1) …   English terms dictionary

• Old High German declension — Old High German is an inflected language, and as such its nouns, pronouns, and adjectives must be declined in order to serve a grammatical function. A set of declined forms of the same word pattern is called a declension. There are five… …   Wikipedia