weathercock

Meaning of weathercock

noun
  1. A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
  2. One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
  3. (Chiefly US and Canada) A wind pump style where the top of it behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but also with a wheel attached to measure wind speed.
verb
  1. (of a boat) To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.
  2. (of an airplane or missile) To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.
  3. To act as a weathercock for.

Information about weathercock

  • The plural form of weathercock is: weathercocks.
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Hyphenation of weathercock

weath-er-cock

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • weathercock is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Translation of weathercock

Words that rhyme with weathercock

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