black cock

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Questions about black cock

What does black cock mean?

black cock means "male black grouse".

What is another word for black cock?

Close synonyms include blackcock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black cock a common word?

black cock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.