cochin

IPA: kˈoʊtʃɪn

Root Word: Cochin

A domestic hen of a large variety with feathered legs, full breast, and small tail.
Former name of Kochi, a city in Kerala, India

Examples of "cochin" in Sentences

My opinion is divided between the south down and the cochin china.
A buff cochin rooster was wandering about the street the other day.
This is an Anamese version, printed in the "Chrestomathie cochin-chinoise"
The buff cochin rooster and the huge negro and all the others I saw myself.
Then there was the buff-cochin spats and the wide ribbon to his eyeglasses.
A combination of best vegetable oils, cochin and coconut oil, makes best shampoo imaginable.
He feared and hated the noises of the yard, particularly the crowing of our big buff cochin rooster and the screaming of the guineas.
We saw dozens of broods of chickens, and one or two of young guinea-fowl, being taken care of by caponized bantams, game-cocks, and cochin-chinas.
But daylight showed that the party consisted of an old man, and his son, and his son's wife, and her sister, and three small children, besides some cochin-china fowl, and a black cat with vividly green eyes.
Occasionally to watch their wonderful motions more closely and have speech with them, I followed when they raced over the sands or flew about over the slippery rocks, and felt like a cochin-china fowl, or muscovy duck, or dodo, trying to keep pace with a humming-bird.