Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

cocorico

English translation:

cock-a-doodle-do

Added to glossary by avsie (X)
Jul 14, 2004 12:01
20 yrs ago
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French term

cocorico

Non-PRO French to English Other Livestock / Animal Husbandry
the noise that the coq does

Proposed translations

+11
1 min
Selected

cock-a-doodle-do

Selon le Robert & Collins
Peer comment(s):

agree writeaway : and according to every other imaginable source! :-)
1 min
agree Laura Robertson
1 min
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
12 mins
agree Pierre POUSSIN
14 mins
agree Josephine Billet
33 mins
agree Louise Dupont (X)
50 mins
agree Aisha Maniar
1 hr
agree Graham macLachlan : for nursery rhymes and the like
1 hr
agree RHELLER : can also be written without hyphens
2 hrs
agree Elena Petelos
4 hrs
agree Nanny Wintjens
16 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Graded automatically based on peer agreement."
+2
2 mins

cock-a-doodle-doo

n/a
Peer comment(s):

agree Dylan Edwards
4 hrs
thanks
agree LJC (X) : This is the correct spelling - with double 'o' at the end.
21 hrs
Absolutely , double "o" at the end..Thanks
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+1
3 mins

cock-a-doodle-do


cocorico / kOkO1iko / nom masculin (also onomat) cock-a-doodle-do; faire cocorico lit, figuré to crow.

Hachette-Oxford

One suggestion among others
HTH, Olivier
Peer comment(s):

agree Nanny Wintjens
16 hrs
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+3
3 mins

crow

Another possibility if it needs to be more 'serious'?
Peer comment(s):

agree writeaway : too bad (yet again, as usual?) no context is supplied. if a whole sentence was there we'd know how 'serious' this is.trouble is the silly side of things appears too often with over-stated categories which makes it even harder to determine what is meant
4 mins
agree Graham macLachlan : may well be
1 hr
agree Elena Petelos
4 hrs
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