cock-a-doodle-doo

[kok-uh-dood-l-doo] Origin

cock-a-doo·dle-doo

[kok-uh-dood-l-doo] interjection, noun, plural cock-a-doo·dle-doos, verb, cock-a-doo·dle-dooed, cock-a-doo·dle-doo·ing.
interjection
1.
(used as a conventionalized expression to suggest the crowing of a rooster, as in stories for children.)
noun
2.
the loud crow of a cock.
3.
Baby Talk. a rooster.

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Cock-a-doodle-doo has a plethora of syllables.
So is cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine. Does it mean:
the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells.
verb (used without object)
4.
to crow.

Origin:
1565–75; fanciful imitative
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cock-a-doodle-doo (ˌkɒkəˌduːdəlˈduː)
 
interj
an imitation or representation of a cock crowing

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cock-a-doodle-doo
1573, imitative; cf. Fr. cocorico, Ger. kikeriki, L. cucurire, Rus. kikareku, Vietnamese cuc-cu, Arabic ko-ko, etc.
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