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Docking vs Cocking - What's the difference?

docking | cocking |

As verbs the difference between docking and cocking

is that docking is present participle of lang=en while cocking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between docking and cocking

is that docking is the process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal while cocking is the hunting of gamecocks.

As an adjective cocking is

offensive or worthless.

docking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia docking) (en noun)
  • The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
  • The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
  • (spacecraft) The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
  • (colloquial, LGBT) The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.

    • 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."