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Cognate with Middle Dutchcocke(“cock, male bird”) and Old Norsekokkr("cock"; whence Danishkok(“cock”), dialectal Swedishkokk(“cock”)). Reinforced by Old Frenchcoc, also of imitative origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock(“penis”) attested since 1325.
1864, Robert Niccol, Essay on Sugar, and General Treatise on Sugar Refining:
The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V […], from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. W represents one of the traps or stairs which communicate with respective floors of the sugarhouse.
One day, however, by her self-important gait, the side-way turn of her head, and the cock of her eye, as she pried into one and another nook of the garden, […]
The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he "work" on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be "a cock," which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse.
1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin:
"You used to talk an awful lot of cock."
2013, M. J. Trow, Swearing Like A Trooper: Rude Slang of World War Two:
That Hitler's armies can't be beat is just a load of cock, / For Marshal Timoshenko's boys are pissing through von Bock […]
Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us.
The spelling has been modernized.
1833, James Shirley, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, page 232:
She is a widow, don, consider that; Has buried one was thought a Hercules, Two cubits taller, and a man that cut Three inches deeper in the say, than I; Consider that too : She may be cock o'twenty, nay, for aught know, she is immortal.
"I suppose, John," said Clara, as her brother entered the apartment," you are glad of a weaker cup this morning than those you were drinking last night - you were carousing till after the first cock."
1842 (published 1856), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems , page 334:
And here we are, half-way to Alcalá, between cocks and midnight.
2005, Roderick Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, “Life in the Nursery”, in Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 21:
As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.
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Uncertain. Some authors speculate it derives from cockle, a yonic fertility symbol, others suggested it entered Southern US vernacular during the period of French rule (of Louisiana) from Cajun Frenchcoquille(“shell”) (itself the source of cockle), which in 18th and 19th century slang meant the vulva.
c.1920-1960, Rufus George Perryman (Speckled Red), quoted by Elijah Wald, The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama:
Born in the canebrake and you were suckled by a bear,
Jumped right through your mammy's cock and never touched a hair.
1935 March 5, “Shave 'Em Dry, No. 2”, in Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops, performed by Lucille Bogan, published 1991, track 6:
My back is made of whalebone And my cock is made of brass
1992, Vance Randolph, edited by Gershon Legman, Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Roll me in your arms, volume 1, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, page 411:
The dog come a-trottin' and the dog come a-lopin' A purty little gal with her cock wide open.
^ Elijah Wald, The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama
^ Vance Randolph (1992) Gershon Legman, editor, Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Roll me in your arms, volume 1, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, page 411: “cock [...] is a southernism [...] where a northerner would say, or expect, cunt. This confusing usage originated during the French domination of the U. S. south; it comes from the French term, [...] coquille, cockleshell, for the vagina.” The work has examples from as early as 1927.
^ Ben Westhoff (2014 January 9) “"Cock" Means "Vagina". Let Us Explain”, in LA Weekly