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Meaning of "cockabully" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COCKABULLY

From Māori kokopu.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COCKABULLY

cockabully  [ˌkɒkəˈbʊlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COCKABULLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cockabully is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COCKABULLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Estuarine triplefin

Forsterygion nigripenne, known commonly as the Estuarine triplefin or the Cockabully, is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Forsterygion. It was described by Achille Valenciennes in 1836.

Definition of cockabully in the English dictionary

The definition of cockabully in the dictionary is any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COCKABULLY


bully
ˈbʊlɪ
carefully
ˈkeəfʊlɪ
cyberbully
ˈsaɪbəˌbʊlɪ
faithfully
ˈfeɪθfʊlɪ
foley
ˈfəʊlɪ
fully
ˈfʊlɪ
goalie
ˈɡəʊlɪ
gratefully
ˈɡreɪtfʊlɪ
holy
ˈhəʊlɪ
hopefully
ˈhəʊpfʊlɪ
outbully
ˌaʊtˈbʊlɪ
painfully
ˈpeɪnfʊlɪ
peacefully
ˈpiːsfʊlɪ
pulley
ˈpʊlɪ
roly-poly
ˈrəʊlɪˈpəʊlɪ
slowly
ˈsləʊlɪ
soli
ˈsəʊlɪ
successfully
səkˈsɛsfʊlɪ
thankfully
ˈθæŋkfʊlɪ
wonderfully
ˈwʌndəfʊlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COCKABULLY

cock sparrow
cock-a-doodle-doo
cock-a-hoop
cock-a-leekie
cock-a-leekie soup
cock-and-bull story
cock-of-the-rock
cock-teaser
cockabullies
cockade
cockaded
Cockaigne
cockalorum
cockamamie
cockamamy
cockapoo
cockateel
cockatiel
cockatoo
cockatrice

WORDS THAT END LIKE COCKABULLY

awfully
beautifully
delightfully
flat-track bully
forcefully
gracefully
gully
lawfully
playfully
powerfully
purposefully
respectfully
rightfully
skillfully
sully
thoughtfully
truthfully
Tully
unmercifully
unsuccessfully

Synonyms and antonyms of cockabully in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cockabully» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COCKABULLY

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The translations of cockabully from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cockabully» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cockabully
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cockabully
570 millions of speakers

English

cockabully
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cockabully
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

cockabully
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

cockabully
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cockabully
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cockabully
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cockabully
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak sopan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cockabully
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cockabully
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cockabully
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seneng banget
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cockabully
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cockabully
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉकबुलली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cockabully
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cockabully
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cockabully
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

cockabully
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cockabully
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

cockabully
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cockabully
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

cockabully
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

cockabully
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cockabully

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COCKABULLY»

The term «cockabully» is barely ever used and occupies the 211.740 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COCKABULLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cockabully» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cockabully» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cockabully

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COCKABULLY»

Discover the use of cockabully in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cockabully and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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New Zealand freshwater fishes: a guide and natural history
Cockabully is also used widely for the Bullies (family Eleotridae), but the contraction Bully is to be preferred for the eleotrids. It is likely that a change in common names may accompany a revision of the New Zealand species ofTripterygion.
Robert Montgomery McDowall, 1978
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Fresh Water Fishes of New Zealand
At present, however, the conflict of names is not between the original and its familiar derivative but between the latter and an entirely extraneous one, " cockabully." This name came into frequent use about 1920, particularly by recent arrivals ...
G. Stokell, 1955
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Fisheries Technical Report
ahortfin eels, river flounder (juvenile and adult), parore ahortfin eels, parore, yellow-eyed mullet (juveniles), river flounder smelt, sand flounder (juveniles) yellow-eyed mullet, parore, yellow-bellied flounder, grey mullet, ahortfin eels cockabully, ...
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The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology
14, 101-10 (1932). Growth of the Scales in relation to Growth of the Fish in Gobiomorphus gobioides (Cuv. and Val.). 16, 136-44 (1934). The Marine Cockabully (Tripterygion varium Forster) : Observations on its Variability, Age, and Rate of ...
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Te Reo
There is point to the question beyond quibbling, because shortly in Orsman' s list one comes to cockabully 'a small freshwater fish', which is Galaxias fasciatus ( Powell, l959:63), the Maori kokopu, the native trout (which are matters which ...
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American Angler: The Magazine of Fly Fishing and Fly Tying
SIMPSON: THE LADY FROM DOWN UNDER This cockabully fly from Kiwiland will catch trout up here, too. One of the few truly unspoiled fishing spots remaining on this beleaguered planet is New Zealand, particularly the South Island.
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Delta
Yesterday was rosy cheeks innocence and apple picking Hidden bush trails and the exhilaration of the swinging vine over the cockabully creek. Muddy cow trails over the hill and the flesh of the turnip Secretly nabbed after dusk while the ...
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New Zealand Journal of Zoology
... 4 _ _ - cockabully Trypterygion spp. <1 <1 <1 <1 3 _ _ — hoki Macruronus novaezelandiae _ — _ _ _ <1 <1 <1 26 <1 <1 25 16 sole Peltorhymphus lotus _ < 1 <1 <1 1 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ long-snouted Stigmatophora <1 <1 <1 <1 2 _ _ _ - pipefish ...
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Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Fishes of the World, 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. Parrott, A. W., 1936. The marine cockabully. (Tripterygion varium Forster.) Observations on its variability, age, and rate of growth. N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology 18(1) : 31-39.
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New Zealand Journal of Zoology
('D. Ill') ingesting a captured 3-cm-long cockabully (Gobiomorphus) (laboratory situation) . Fig. 5. A $ Dolomedes minor feeding on several flies. over the water surface to capture trapped insects some 40 cm away. PREY DETECTION.

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COCKABULLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cockabully is used in the context of the following news items.
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Mrs Simpson Trout Killer Pattern with Allan Burgess
Mrs Simpson lures make an excellent cockabully, crayfish, and perhaps even a passable dragon fly imitation. Fish it on either a sinking line or ... «Southern Fishing & Boating, May 15»
2
Rublex Flopy and Plucky – Natural rubber bibbed minnows from the …
It looked for all the world like a darting cockabully. Indeed the Plucky was a favourite with many expert anglers who fished the Lower Selwyn ... «Southern Fishing & Boating, Apr 15»
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Big dry killing 'thousands of fish'
SURVIVAL: Vanessa Tipoki is trying to save native fish, like this cockabully, from dying as the Tauanui River dries up. PHOTO/LYNDA ... «New Zealand Herald, Mar 15»
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Rugby: Top four looks unassailable
... at the Cockabully Cauldron. The Magpies (13+) retain the Jack Hore over Pirates for the millionth straight year. Kaik (12-) just beat the Onion. «Otago Daily Times, May 14»
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Diving into darkness
He recalls seeing a small cockabully, but otherwise the tunnel was "totally pitch black", the only light filtering through when they rose into the ... «The Nelson Mail, Dec 13»
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Fish must have gone on holiday
The kids who caught the most unusual fish - this year a pipi, a crab and a cockabully - got the first choice of the other prizes provided by Hunting ... «Stuff.co.nz, Dec 12»
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Flies from Middle Earth
... that imitates smelt, whitefish, fingerling trout and cockabully, a small native fish. Matukas are used in the large North Island lakes, such as Taupo and Rotorua, ... «Fly Rod & Reel Magazine, Apr 10»
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Contest nets numbers and big fish
... competition, attracted about 60 children, for challenges which included building the best sandcastle and catching the biggest cockabully. «Otago Daily Times, Feb 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cockabully [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cockabully>. May 2024 ».
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