cockfight

cockfight

English

Etymology

cock +‎ fight

Noun

cockfight (plural cockfights)

1. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs

   Synonym: (archaic) cockmatch

Translations

contest

Arabic: مصارعة الديوك‎ Armenian: աքլորակռիվ (hy) (akʿlorakṙiv) Assamese: কুকুৰা যুঁজ (kukura zũz) Azerbaijani: xoruz döyüşü Basque: oilar-borroka Bengali: মোরগের লড়াই (bn) (morôger lôṛai) Bikol Central: bulang (bcl) Burmese: ကြက်တိုက်ခြင်း (kraktuikhkrang:) Catalan: baralla de galls f Chinese: Mandarin: 鬥雞／斗鸡 (zh) (dòujī) Dutch: hanengevecht (nl) Esperanto: batalkoko, kokluktado Finnish: kukkotappelu (fi) French: combat de coqs (fr) m German: Hahnenkampf (de) m Hebrew: קרב תרנגולים‎ (he) Hungarian: kakasviadal (hu) Indonesian: sabung ayam (id) Italian: combattimento tra galli m, combattimento fra galli m Japanese: 闘鶏 (ja) (とうけい, tōkei), 蹴合 (けあい, keai), 鶏合 (とりあわせ, toriawase; にわとりあわせ, niwatoriawase) Kannada: ಕೋಳಿ ಅಂಕ (kn) (kōḷi aṅka) Khmer: លេងជល់មាន់ (leeŋ cʊəl moan) Korean:투계(鬪鷄) (ko) (tugye), 닭싸움 (dakssaum) Malay: sabung ayam (ms) Malayalam: കോഴിപ്പോര് (ml) (kōḻippōrŭ) Norwegian: hanekamp Oriya: ଗଞ୍ଜା ଲଢ଼େଇ (gôñja lôṛhei) Portuguese: rinha (pt) f, rinha de galo f Russian: петуши́ный бой m (petušínyj boj), бойцовый петух (bojcovyj petux) Serbo-Croatian: borba pijetlova f Spanish: pelea de gallos f Swedish: tuppfäktning c Tagalog: sabong Tamil: சேவல் சண்டை (cēval caṇṭai) Telugu: కోడిపందెం (te) (kōḍipandeṁ) Thai: ไก่ชน (th) Turkish: horoz dövüşü (tr) Volapük: higokakomip Welsh: gêm geiliog f

Verb

cockfight (third-person singular simple present cockfights, present participle cockfighting, simple past and past participle cockfought)

1. To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
   • 1994, Charlise Lyles, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? (page 245)

     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.

Translations

participate in a cockfighting event

Chinese: Mandarin: 鬥雞／斗鸡 (zh) (dòujī) Finnish: osallistua kukkotappeluun Korean: 투계(鬪鷄)하다 (tugyehada), 닭싸움하다 (dakssaumhada)

Related terms

• cockfighter
• cockfighting

See also

• alectoromachy