cockcrowing means the crowing sound of a cock. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Etymology
From Middle English cok crowynge; equivalent to cock + crowing.
noun
- The crowing sound of a cock.“We might have had hearts in our cradles; but, as I don't pretend to remember mine, I cannot say. Perhaps at sixteen, too, there is a sort of imagination of one; but it is a phantom which flits at the cockcrowing of reality.”
- cockcrow; daybreak