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English
Etymology
From Middle English cok crowynge; equivalent to cock + crowing.
Noun
cockcrowing (plural cockcrowings)
- The crowing sound of a cock.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Season”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, pages 91-92:We might have had hearts in our cradles; but, as I don't pretend to remember mine, I cannot say. Perhaps at sixteen, too, there is a sort of imagination of one; but it is a phantom which flits at the cockcrowing of reality.
- cockcrow; daybreak