Verboticism: Cockadoodledont

'I may not have the body of a peacock, but I got the brains of a peacock.'

DEFINITION: An individual who is so self-absorbed and cocksure that they cannot understand why their mating calls, or "pick-up lines", do not generate the desired response.

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Cockadoodledont

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: kahk-uh-dood-duhl-DOHNT

Sentence: Alex entered the singles bar cocksure, reeking of musk, with the lines he memorised from the book "How To Get Chicks", but he left a cockadoodledont.

Etymology: cocky + cock (rooster, a proud bird) + cock-a-doodle-doo (the crow of a rooster) + don't (the response such a guy gets)

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