cockfight

English

noun
Definitions
  • A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs

Etymology

Compound from English cock (penis, male domestic chicken, a shock pile of grain, diminutive suffix, male, a roundish heap, rooster) + English fight.

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fight

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