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English
Etymology
From cock + fight.
Noun
cockfight (plural cockfights)
- A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
- Synonym: (archaic) cockmatch
Translations
contest
- Arabic: مصارعة الديوك
- Armenian: աքլորակռիվ (hy) (akʻlorakṙiv)
- Assamese: কুকুৰা যুঁজ (kukura zũz)
- Azerbaijani: xoruz döyüşü
- Basque: oilar-borroka
- Bengali: মোরগের লড়াই (bn) (mōrger loṛai)
- Bikol Central: bulang (bcl)
- Burmese: ကြက်တိုက်ခြင်း (kraktuikhkrang:)
- Catalan: baralla de galls f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鬥雞 / 斗鸡 (zh) (dòujī)
- Dutch: hanengevecht (nl)
- Esperanto: batalkoko, kokluktado
- Finnish: kukkotappelu (fi)
- French: combat de coqs (fr) m
- German: Hahnenkampf (de) m
- Hebrew: קרב תרנגולים (he)
- Hungarian: kakasviadal (hu)
- Indonesian: sabung ayam (id)
- Italian: combattimento tra galli m, combattimento fra galli m
- Japanese: 闘鶏 (ja) (とうけい, tōkei), 蹴合 (けあい, keai), 鶏合 (とりあわせ, toriawase; にわとりあわせ, niwatoriawase)
- Kannada: ಕೋಳಿ ಅಂಕ (kn) (kōḷi aṅka)
- Khmer: លេងជល់មាន់ (leeŋ cʊəl moan)
- Korean: 투계(鬪鷄) (ko) (tugye), 닭싸움 (dakssaum)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: sabung ayam (ms)
- Malayalam: കോഴിപ്പോര് (ml) (kōḻippōrŭ)
- Norwegian: hanekamp
- Odia: ଗଞ୍ଜା ଲଢ଼େଇ (gañjā laṛhei)
- Polish: walka kogutów f
- Portuguese: rinha (pt) f, rinha de galo f
- Russian: петуши́ный бой m (petušínyj boj), бойцовый петух (bojcovyj petux)
- Serbo-Croatian: borba pijetlova f
- Spanish: pelea de gallos f
- Swedish: tuppfäktning (sv) c
- Tagalog: sabong
- Tamil: சேவல் சண்டை (cēval caṇṭai)
- Telugu: కోడిపందెం (te) (kōḍipandeṁ)
- Thai: ไก่ชน (th)
- Turkish: horoz dövüşü (tr)
- Volapük: higokakomip
- Welsh: gêm geiliog f
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Verb
cockfight (third-person singular simple present cockfights, present participle cockfighting, simple past and past participle cockfought)
- To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
1994, Charlise Lyles, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?, page 245:I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.
Translations
participate in a cockfighting event
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