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Definition: Cockscomb |
CockscombNoun1. Garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers. 2. A conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments. 3. A cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red. 4. The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CockscombSynonyms: comb (n), common cockscomb (n), coxcomb (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cockscomb |
| English words defined with "cockscomb": Fasciated. (references) |
Expressions using "cockscomb": common cockscomb ♦ garden cockscomb. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cockscomb | 42 |
cockscomb flower | 12 |
celosia cockscomb | 4 |
cockscomb plant | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cockscomb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lafshë gjeli. (various references) | |
Arabic | قطيفة عرف الديك, عرف الديك (crest). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | франт (coxcomb, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes), шутовска шапка, гребен на петел (comb), глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), надут глупак, петльов гребен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 雞 (crest). (various references) | |
Czech | rostlina s èervenými kvìty. (various references) | |
Farsi | ژیگولو (Macaroni), گل تاج خروس , زلف عروسان , احمق (Asinine, Cockeyed, Daft, Dense, Dopey, Dult, Fool, Gawky, Gosling, Hick, Inane, Loggerhead, Loony, Natural, Nincompoop, Noodle, Sawney, Senseless, Simpleton, Sot, Spoony, Stupid, Sucker, Unmeaning), ادم خودفروش وخودنما. (various references) | |
Finnish | kukonharja (comb). (various references) | |
French | crête de coq (condyloma acuminatum). (various references) | |
Greek | άνθρωποσ κουφόσ, λειρίο αλέκτοροσ, λειρί πετεινού. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tarajos bársonyvirág, kakastaréj. (various references) | |
Indonesian | balung (bone). (various references) | |
Italian | cresta di gallo (condyloma). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鶏 (name of flower), 鶏 (crest). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けいか" (crest, crown of laurel, crown of thorns, policeman, ravine, scenery, strong and fierce), けいとう (admiration, adoration, ancestry, concentration on, family line, geological formation, idolizing, lineage, name of flower, relieving thepitcher, system), とさか (crest). (various references) | |
Manx | lus y chellee, lus ny meeyl, keyjeen (comb, coxcomb). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockscombcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | crista-de-galo (coxcomb), casquilho (dandy, exquisite, sleeve, socket, thimble), peralvilho, espada-das-searas, de ou relativo loucura, amaranto (amaranth, amaranthus). (various references) | |
Romanian | creastã de cocoş (comb, coxcomb), fes al bufonului. (various references) | |
Russian | петуший гребешок, петушиный гребешок, дурацкий (asinine, cock-eyed, foolish, goofy, idiotic). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pomodarski, pomodar (fashion plate, slicker, swell), petlova kresta, kicoški (dandy, dapper, foppish), kicoš (beau, dandy, dude, fop, jack-a-dandy, johnny, toff). (various references) | |
Spanish | cresta de gallo (coxcomb), de cresta de gallo (coxcombical). (various references) | |
Swedish | tuppkam (crest), sprätt (beau, blood, coxcomb, dandy, dude, fop, gallant, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, popinjay, toff), petimäter (quibbler). (various references) | |
Turkish | züppe adam, horozibiği (love-lies-bleeding), horoz ibiği (coxcomb), bob stil. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хлюст, фат (coxcomb, exquisite, fop), блазенський ковпак (coxcomb), півнячий гребінь. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người tự phụ (big head), người hay vỗ ngực ta đây (big head). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | CELOSIA ARGENTEA. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cockscomb": cockscombs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-c-c-k-m-o-o-s" | |
-3 letters: combos, coombs. | |
-4 letters: bocks, books, booms, bosom, cocos, combo, combs, cooks, coomb, kobos, mocks, smock, socko. | |
-5 letters: bock, book, boom, boos, bosk, cobs, coco, comb, cook, coos, kobo, kobs, mobs, mock, mocs, moos, mosk, sock, sook. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-c-c-k-m-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: cockscombs. | |
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