cock

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Sophie Mol lay asleep on a little camp coc that had been made up for her next to the big bed.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

“Ah! you von Jack-a-napes, you von poule—littel fighting coc, I see,” he remarked in an altered tone.

From Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days by Kingston, William Henry Giles

‘Still thou be, Peter; well I the icnowe; Thou wolt fur sake me thrien ar the coc him crowe.’

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

The same occurred in the plural of many nouns, where a consonant was lost before the s of the flection; thus singular coc with short vowel, plural cos with long.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various