weathercock
English
Etymology
From Middle English wetharcoke, weþercok, wedercoc, wederkok, equivalent to weather + cock.
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
weathercock (plural weathercocks)
- A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
- (figuratively) One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.
Translations
weather vane
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a fickle, inconstant person
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See also
Verb
weathercock (third-person singular simple present weathercocks, present participle weathercocking, simple past and past participle weathercocked)
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