cocking

Offensive or worthless

Adjective

  1. Offensive or worthless
    • "Son of a cocking bastard." - 2000, Neil Kurtzman, Doing Nothing, page 180:

    Synonyms: fucking no good shitstained bastardly blown cacky chaffy cocking crapalicious cruddy cullionly draffish draffy dreckish drecky duffing floccinaucinihilipilificatious for the birds garbagey good-for-naught good-for-nothing goodless ineffectual invaluable

Origin

From cock (“a male bird, esp. a rooster; many derivatives, incl. penis”) + -ing (forming participles).

Noun

  1. The hunting of gamecocks.
  2. Cockfighting.
    • Thus circumstanced, he became the avowed companion of sharpers and gamblers, attended cockings and races […] - 1792, The European Magazine, and London Review, volume 21, page 313:

Forms

cockings

Related

cocker cocker spaniel

Derived

cocking of a snook

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of cock