cockfight means A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
cockfight is pronounced /ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/.
Etymology
From cock + fight.
noun
- A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs“This was a very hard problem; and the Rajah thought and thought, as hard as a Malay Rajah can be expected to think, but could not solve it; and so he was very unhappy, and did nothing but smoke and chew betel with his favourite wife, and eat scarcely anything; and even when he went to the cock-fight did not seem to care whether his best birds won or lost.”
verb
- To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.“I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.”