 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
weathercock
noun: weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weathercock \Weath"er*cock'\, verb (used with an object)
To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.
Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weathercock \Weath"er*cock'\, noun
1. A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally
often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a
spire with the wind, and showing its direction. ''As a
wedercok that turneth his face with every wind.''
--Chaucer.
Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation.
--Longfellow.
2. Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and
frequently; one who veers with every change of current
opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "weathercock":
April showers, Proteus, Vicar of Bray, anemograph, anemometer,
anemometrograph, anemoscope, barometer, chameleon, cloud shapes,
cock, feeler, formalist, kaleidoscope, mercury, moon,
pilot balloon, probe, quicksilver, random sample, rolling stone,
sample, shifting sands, sound, sounder, straw vote, temporizer,
the weather, timepleaser, timeserver, trial balloon, trimmer, vane,
water, weather vane, wheel of fortune, whirligig, wind cone,
wind indicator, wind sock, wind vane, wind-speed indicator
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