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Synonyms for cockroach

Grammar : Noun
Spell : kok-rohch
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒkˌroʊtʃ

Top 10 synonyms for cockroach
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Définition of cockroach

Origin :
  • 1620s, folk etymology (as if from cock + roach) of Spanish cucaracha "chafer, beetle," from cuca "kind of caterpillar." Folk etymology also holds that the first element is from caca "excrement."
  • A certaine India Bug, called by the Spaniards a Cacarootch, the which creeping into Chests they eat and defile with their ill-sented dung [Capt. John Smith, "Virginia," 1624].
  • As in insect : noun bug
Example sentences :
  • Crept about the decks like a wretched insect—like a cockroach, only not so lively.
  • Extract from : « Tales Of Hearsay » by Joseph Conrad
  • It has also the habit of paralysing the cockroach by stinging it on the nervous chain.
  • Extract from : « The Industries of Animals » by Frdric Houssay
  • Finally, the cockroach began to fly; then, for a while, he had matters his own way.
  • Extract from : « The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 » by Various
  • When the cockroach crawls, he knows whither and wherefore he wants to go?
  • Extract from : « Foma Gordyeff » by Maxim Gorky
  • But not you, you can't; you ain't got the invention of a cockroach.
  • Extract from : « Treasure Island » by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Then, as they stared they saw the cockroach was getting larger.
  • Extract from : « The Girl in the Golden Atom » by Raymond King Cummings
  • There is the cockroach, for example, which is so common and so mischievous in our houses.
  • Extract from : « The Animal World, A Book of Natural History » by Theodore Wood
  • Its egg was attached to the coxa of the midleg of the cockroach.
  • Extract from : « The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches » by Louis M. Roth
  • The correct spelling of the generic name of the German cockroach.
  • Extract from : « The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches » by Louis M. Roth
  • The intracellular bacteria of the cockroach in relation to symbiosis.
  • Extract from : « The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches » by Louis M. Roth
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