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weathercock

[ weth-er-kok ]

noun

  1. a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it.
  2. (loosely) any weather vane.
  3. a person who readily adopts the latest fads, opinions, etc.:

    The count is the weathercock of the jet set.



weathercock

/ ˈwɛðəˌkɒk /

noun

  1. a weather vane in the form of a cock
  2. a person who is fickle or changeable
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr (of an aircraft) to turn or tend to turn into the wind
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of weathercock1

First recorded in 1250–1300, weathercock is from the Middle English word wedercoc. See weather, cock 1
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Example Sentences

No matter where we find ourselves in these stories, the author’s mind, and thus the reader’s, seems turned like a weathercock toward Homewood.

There was a gust of wind, then, so strong that it rattled the windows of the village, and whirled and spun the weathercocks until they could not tell north from west or south from east.

The bronze weathercock tumbled, taking with it three relics sealed inside in 1935.

There was a flagstaff in the garden, and on the roof was a gilt weathercock shaped like a telescope.

What makes this ten times worse than otherwise it would be, we are never constant to one dress, but are as fickle and uncertain as weathercocks—or the men that preach under them.

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