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Gamecock   Listen
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Gamecock  n.  (Zool.) The male game fowl.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gamecock" Quotes from Famous Books



... we may admire such a robust old gamecock spirit in a valetudinarian, to call it a religious spirit would be odd. Yet it is for the moment Voltaire's reaction on the whole of life. Je me'n fiche is the vulgar French equivalent for our English ejaculation "Who cares?" And the happy term je me'n fichisme recently ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... his arm, and carried his thumb away—the thumb of the right hand, I think. The rifle clattered on to the rocks, but as we drew round him he pulled his revolver with his one good hand, and started to pot us. He looked a gamecock as he stood there in the sunlight, his face all bathed in blood, and his shattered hand hanging numbed beside him. So we gave him a couple in the legs to steady him, and down by his dead horse he went; ...
— Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) - Letters from the Front • A. G. Hales



Words linked to "Gamecock" :   hell-kite, combatant, cock, hell-rooster, belligerent, scrapper, battler



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