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cock a

snook/snoot Chiefly British
To thumb one's nose: "[The clock] is set wrong and hung crooked, as if to cock a snook at the importance of time" (Kevin Crossley-Holland).
See also: cock

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Chaggit-Biblical Hebrew
Tupaarnaq-Native American, Greenlandic
SØLvi-Norwegian
Sigge-Swedish
Ketevan-Georgian
SheelaghSHEE-ləEnglish (Rare)