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cock a
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).
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
TalÂT | | - | Turkish |
Blanid | | - | Irish |
Yishai | | - | Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew |
ArİF | | - | Turkish, Azerbaijani |
Izolda | | ee-ZAWL-dah (Polish) | Georgian, Polish |
Ephrath | | - | Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek |