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Cocking vs Coking - What's the difference?

cocking | coking |

As verbs the difference between cocking and coking

is that cocking is while coking is .

As nouns the difference between cocking and coking

is that cocking is (archaic) the hunting of gamecocks while coking is the manufacture of coke via the destructive distillation of coal.

As an adjective cocking

is (vulgar) offensive or worthless.

cocking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (archaic) The hunting of gamecocks.
  • (obsolete) Cockfighting.
  • * 1792 , The European Magazine, and London Review (volume 21, page 313)
    • Thus circumstanced, he became the avowed companion of sharpers and gamblers, attended cockings and races

    Derived terms

    * cocker, cocker spaniel

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (vulgar) offensive or worthless
  • * 2000 , Neil Kurtzman, Doing Nothing (page 180)
    • "Son of a cocking bastard."

    coking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • The manufacture of coke via the destructive distillation of coal