cockweed

English edit

Etymology edit

cock +‎ weed

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Noun edit

cockweed (plural cockweeds)

(uncountable) peppergrass
- 1752, Robert Ainsworth, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Compendiarius:
  Spanish pepper , dittander, or cockweed
(slang, vulgar) An obnoxious fool.

References edit

“cockweed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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