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Weathercock vs Woodstock - What's the difference?

weathercock | woodstock |

As a noun weathercock

is a weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.

As a verb weathercock

is to turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.

As a proper noun Woodstock is

Woodstock Festival, an American rock music festival originally performed in 1969 in New York state.

weathercock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
  • (figuratively) One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.

    • See also

    * weathervane, weather vane * windsock, wind sock

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a boat) To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.

    • woodstock

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , an American rock music festival originally performed in 1969 in New York state.
  • A town in Alabama
  • A town in Connecticut
  • A city in Georgia, USA
  • A city in Illinois
  • A town in Maine
  • A city in Minnesota
  • A town in New Brunswick
  • A town in Newfoundland and Labrador
  • A town in New Hampshire
  • A village in New South Wales
  • A town in New York
  • A community in Nova Scotia
  • A village in Ohio
  • A city in Ontario
  • A town in Oxfordshire, England
  • A community in Queensland
  • A town in Vermont
  • A locality in Victoria, Australia
  • A town in Virginia

    • Derived terms

    * -stock