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Word: Acock
Speech Type: Adverb
Etymology:
early 19th century; earliest use found in Blackwood's Magazine. From a- + cock
Definition:
In a cocked fashion; (figurative and in figurative contexts) defiantly. Occasionally also as predicative adjective: cocked.
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