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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
TalÂT-Turkish
Blanid-Irish
Yishai-Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
ArİF-Turkish, Azerbaijani
Izoldaee-ZAWL-dah (Polish)Georgian, Polish
Ephrath-Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek