The word "cockalorum" refers to a self-important, little man. It can also be interpreted as a cock fighter and originates from Middle English.
Das Wort "cockalorum" bezeichnet eine sich selbst wichtige, kleine Person. Es wird auch als Hahnenkämpfer interpretiert und hat seinen Ursprung im Mittelenglischen.
| Front | cockalorum \KOK-uh-lor-uhm, -LOAR-\ |
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| Back | noun A self-important little man. [From Middle English cock (rooster), of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1715.] Meantime, let him be foolish! "I suppose he thinks he's the grand high cockalorum!" she told herself, chuckling. - Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, The Iron Woman, 1911 His mother was dead and he could write about her: a young woman, a girl, really, with Sid, who was just a child, and Rose, who was even younger, emigrating from an inhospitable Russian countryside with that young cockalorum of a husband--good God, was he that way even then?--to live in this alien land and die before she was fifty. - Joseph Heller, Good as Gold, 1979 |
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