cockadoodledoo

Barnyard morning alarm

Cockadoodledoo is the conventional English spelling of a rooster's crow—the loud call made at dawn or to assert territory.

The word is onomatopoeic, imitating the sound itself.

It appears most often in children's contexts: nursery rhymes, picture books, farm stories.

The rooster went cockadoodledoo and woke the whole farmyard.

rooster

crow

Large black corvid

comb · wattle · spur · plumage · strut · peck · barnyard · henhouse · chicken · poultry

onomatopoeia

crow

Large black corvid

sound · noise · exclamation · imitation · cackling · squawk · cluck

alarm

wakeup

Call to consciousness

call · summon · herald · proclamation · reveille · warning · rouse · stirring

dawn

sunrise

Morning light's arrival

sunup · wakeup · daylight · dawning · twilight · horizon · glimmer · prelude · threshold

Opposites
animal vocalizations

cockadoodledoohoot

Owl's cry

cluck · moo · oink · meow · woof

time of day association

cockadoodledoohoot

Owl's cry

howl · crickets · lullaby · goodnight · wolf howl

Family

cock-a-doodle-doo

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G