COCK-UP, COCK UP, COCKUP

PRONUNCIATION: (KOK-up)

MEANING: noun: 1. complete mess; a blunder.
2. An upward turn.
verb tr.: 1. To botch.
2. To turn upward or curl.

ETYMOLOGY: From English cock (to turn up or to one side), from cock (rooster). The first sense of the word is a construction parallel to “screw-up” probably influenced by the slang sense of the word cock. Earliest documented use: 1693.
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CORKUP - what you do to the wine bottle when you want to save what's left

COCOUP - two people together overthrow the government

COCKUPU - the offspring of a cocker-spaniel and a pudle