The old word " pokherit " which used to mean " to cross out ," " to delete ", now tends to be contaminated with the relatively new meaning of " kher " ( i. e., obscene " penis "), thus achieving an obscene meaning, also.

Old Russian " ud / uda " ( from PIE root * ud-meaning " up, out ") became taboo in mid-18th century, requiring the euphemisms khui and kher.

Those of somewhat later date represent a figure sacrificing on an altar, which is consecrated to Aesculapius, as indicated by a cock that stands below it.

The somewhat monotonous song of the cock resembles that of the Yellowhammer.

The Mosin-Nagant bolt is a somewhat complicated affair, but is extremely rugged and durable ; it, like the Mauser, uses a " cock on open " system.

The familiar, if somewhat monotonous, song of the cock is often described as A little bit of bread and no cheese.

The familiar, if somewhat monotonous, song of the cock is a repetitive zrip.

After somewhat settling down, Ilić informs the host that he's been at home recovering from bronchitis for days and that he has no idea about any protests, but soon fires up again, this time against the Studio B radio station itself: " all of you bastards at Studio B can suck my cock, and also make sure to take good care of yourselves because I'll come to that shitty station of yours and throw all you asses out the window ".

Some Finnish-speakers today find the name kalakukko somewhat amusing, as kala is Finnish for " fish " and kukko is " rooster ", leading to the oft used but non-morphological translation, " fish cock ".

This is sometimes a pecuniary compensation, as two-pence an acre for the tithe of land: sometimes it is a compensation in work and labour, as that the parson shall have only the twelfth cock of hay, and not the tenth, in consideration of the owner's making it for him: sometimes, in lieu of a large quantity of crude or imperfect tithe, the parson shall have a less, quantity, when arrived to greater maturity, as a couple of fowls in lieu of tithe eggs ; and the like.

Hens will also coo, but this is noticeably less guttural than the cooing of the cock.

Another method of alectormancy, supposedly used less often, was based on reciting letters of the alphabet noting those at which a cock crows.

On the afternoon of June 11, 2005, more than 100 federal and state agents, led by the FBI and supported by snipers and helicopters, raided and closed a large cock fighting ring in Cocke County.

Vendors of cock rings and medical sources always indicate that cock rings are not to be worn for more than about 30 minutes.

A flexible compression ring ( or sometimes more than one ), commonly called cock rings when used recreationally, must be used.

He got as far as the village of Poynings ( an area known as the Devil's Dyke ) when he was disturbed by a cock crowing ( one version of the story claims that it was the prayers of St Dunstan that made all the local cocks crow earlier than usual ).

The male bird ( or cock ) is much bigger than the female ( or hen ).

If there is more than one cock on the lek, it is mainly the alpha-cock who copulates with the hens present.

Faster than the cock crows seven times, the ploughing was finished and the brook horse headed for the lake, dragging both the plough and the girl.

The 554 also provides three pyrotechnic cartridges rather than one, allowing the pilot to cock the weapon only after take-off while still having two cartridges to recock in flight.

As with many gamebirds, the cock ( male ) is larger than the hen ( female ), measuring 50 – 55 cm compared to her length of 37 – 42 cm.

The rugged country and sloping land of West Pymble was slower to be settled than surrounding flatter areas, and became a bush haven for absconded convicts, illicit stills, gambling and cock fighting.

Later that night, the adults leave to watch the future equivalent of a cock fight, but with winged reptiles rather than roosters.

The time delay is such that if the train is travelling at more than 10 mph ( 16 km / h ) its trip cock will hit the train stop before it lowers.

Its alternative name cockscomb ( spelling variations abound ) is because combs are generally larger on males than on females ( a male gallinaceous bird is called a cock ).

Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to Theyyam gods, despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, Theyyam deities are propitiated through the cock sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

A female, especially a young one, who flirts playfully is sometimes called a coquette or in slang a cock tease ; while a male flirt may be called a womanizer or player.

( The spring-loaded arm that holds a piece of flint or pyrite is referred to as a cock because of its resemblance to a rooster.

( The hammer is roughly the same as the cock found on flintlocks except that it doesn't clamp onto anything.

A rooster, also known as a cockerel, cock ( from Old English coc ) or chanticleer, is a male chicken ( Gallus gallus ).

A cockfight is a contest held in a ring called a cockpit between two gamecocks or cocks, with the first use of the word gamecock ( denoting use of the cock in game, sport, pastime or entertainment ) appearing in 1646. after the term “ cock of the game ” used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the secular sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607.

In several myths the cock has the power to revive the dead or to make a wish come true and is well known in Torajan cosmology.

Khasi people believe the rooster is sacrificed as a substitute for man, it being thought that the cock when sacrificed “ bears the sins of the man ” ( See also similarity of Kapport in Judaism )

Divination, a part of many religions is derived from the Latin divinare " to foresee, to be inspired by a god " and as a part of divination comes alectryomancy, which means rooster and divination respectively, with the intent of communication between the gods and man in which the diviner observes a cock, pecking at grain, with Judaism forbidding acts of divination in the Hebrew Bible.

22b, 23a, 49b ), the book of Jewish mysticism and collection of writings on the Torah written by first century tannaic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai ( Rashbi ), tells of a celestial manifestation, which causes the crowing of the roosters ; known also in the Talmud, is " blessed be He who has given the cock intelligence ,"( Ber.

) is recognized in the Targum as well as the Chaldaic, Syriac, Arabic, LXX and Vulgate with all referencing the fighting rooster of fighting cock as the religious vessel.

In East Timor, one of the two predominately Christian nations in southeast Asia ( the Philippines being the other ), for some, the roof of the house is reserved for gods and spirits of ancestors, the lower portion remains for the nature spirit and usually occupied by animals, and the cock is admired because of courage and perseverance, with the courage of a man compared with that of the cock, with the cockfight occurring regularly and “ many tais designs include the cock ”.

" may be further understood not only in the spiritual understandings of many in Indonesia but further in the light of numerous representations of the rooster or cock as a religious vessel found in the Catacombs from the earliest period including a painting from the Catacomb of St. Priscilla ( mentioned in all the ancient liturgical sources and known as the " Queen of the Catacombs " in antiquity ) reproduced in Giovanni Gaetano Bottari's folio of 1754, where the Good Shepherd is depicted as feeding the lambs, with a crowing cock on His right and left hand.

In the sixth century, it is reputed that Pope Gregory I declared the cock the emblem of Christianity saying the rooster was " the most suitable emblem of Christianity ", being " the emblem of St Peter ".

It is known that Pope Leo IV had the figure of the cock placed on the Old St. Peter's Basilica or old Constantinian basilica and has served as a religious icon and reminder of Peter's denial of Christ since that time, with some churches still having the rooster on the steeple today.

Frazer ( 2006: p. 106 ) in The Golden Bough tells us that, “ In modern Greece, when the foundation of a new building is being laid, it is the custom to kill a cock, a ram, or a lamb, and to let its blood flow on the foundation-stone ”.