shuttlecock means A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, shuttlecock ranks #650 of 42,747 for Qualifying.
shuttlecock is pronounced /ˈʃʌtl̩ˌkɒk/.
Etymology
From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).
noun
- A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games.
- The game of badminton.
verb
- To move rapidly back and forth.
- To send or toss back and forth; to bandy.e.g.“to shuttlecock words”
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Words closest in meaning
By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.
- battledore 67% match — A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton. vs shuttlecock →
- racket 60% match — An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a shuttlecock in badminton. vs shuttlecock →
- badminton 57% match — A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English. vs shuttlecock →
- indiaca 56% match — A sport resembling peteca, played with a large shuttlecock rather than a ball. vs shuttlecock →
- pickleball 52% match — A racquet sport resembling tennis, played with solid paddles and a perforated ball, which combines elements of badminton, table tennis and wiffleball. vs shuttlecock →
- badders 52% match — The sport of badminton. vs shuttlecock →
- cockshut 52% match — A kind of net for catching woodcock. vs shuttlecock →
- racqueted 52% match — Having a spatulate endpart beyond the main tail section. vs shuttlecock →