Pocking vs Cocking - What's the difference?
pocking | cocking |
The presence of pock marks.
* 1953 , Far Eastern Ceramic Bulletin
(archaic) The hunting of gamecocks.
(obsolete) Cockfighting.
* 1792 , The European Magazine, and London Review (volume 21, page 313)
(vulgar) offensive or worthless
* 2000 , Neil Kurtzman, Doing Nothing (page 180)
As verbs the difference between pocking and cocking
is that pocking is while cocking is .As nouns the difference between pocking and cocking
is that pocking is the presence of pock marks while cocking is (archaic) the hunting of gamecocks.As an adjective cocking is
(vulgar) offensive or worthless.pocking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Unfortunately, the floor was already so pitted that I could hardly tell the punch marks from the normal pockings of age.
cocking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- Thus circumstanced, he became the avowed companion of sharpers and gamblers, attended cockings and races
Derived terms
* cocker, cocker spanielAdjective
(-)- "Son of a cocking bastard."