cockerelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɒkəɹəl/, /ˈkɒkɹəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑkəɹəl/, /ˈkɑkɹəl/

名詞

cockerel (plural cockerels)

1. A young male chicken.
   • 1941, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie:

     “Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.”

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.

関連する語

• cock

参考

• chicken
• hen
• rooster