cock-a-doodle-dooing

I have always considered you a respectable man and now you say things like that about the cock-a-doodle-dooing.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

She never goes out, and such things as eggs can't come from mere cock-a-doodle-dooing.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

But the most absurd, disgusting, contemptible sight in the world would you and I be, leaving the barn-door for my lady's flower-garden, forsaking our natural sturdy walk for the peacock's genteel rickety stride, and adopting the squeak of his voice in the place of our gallant lusty cock-a-doodle-dooing.

The Second Funeral of Napoleon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

A year before she would have been far more missed and regretted by Sylvia; now it was almost a relief to the latter to be freed from the perpetual calls upon her sympathy, from the constant demands upon her congratulations, made by one who had no thought or feeling to bestow on others; at least, not in these weeks of 'cock-a-doodle-dooing,' as Mrs. Robson persisted in calling it.

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

A year before she would have been far more missed and regretted by Sylvia; now it was almost a relief to the latter to be freed from the perpetual calls upon her sympathy, from the constant demands upon her congratulations, made by one who had no thought or feeling to bestow on others; at least, not in these weeks of 'cock-a-doodle-dooing,' as Mrs. Robson persisted in calling it.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Woolsey chuck-chucking, cock-a-doodle-dooing, and performing those indescribable freaks which gentlemen with philoprogenitive organs will execute in the company of children -- in the midst of their play the baby gave a tug at his mother's cap; off it came -- her hair was cut close to her head!

Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Alan had dared challenge ITN's leviathan-like behemoth News at Ten by making programmes full of innervating banter with leading light entertainment raconteurs Oddie, Rea, "Shaky"; Wilde, meanwhile, had scandalized Victoria's Jerusalem by sodomizing gentlemen of standing then cock-a-doodle-dooing about it in the Daily Mails of the day.

unknown title 2011

What is the difference between sharing the wonder of your child with the world, and cock-a-doodle-dooing so people will be impressed with you by proxy?

NYT > Home Page By LISA BELKIN 2011

Alan had dared challenge ITN's leviathan-like behemoth News at Ten by making programmes full of innervating banter with leading light entertainment raconteurs Oddie, Rea, "Shaky"; Wilde, meanwhile, had scandalized Victoria's Jerusalem by sodomizing gentlemen of standing then cock-a-doodle-dooing about it in the Daily Mails of the day.

unknown title 2011

One summer evening, as she and the baby and Mrs. Crump and Woolsey (let us say all four babies together) were laughing and playing in Mrs. Crump’s drawing-room — playing the most absurd gambols, fat Mrs. Crump, for instance, hiding behind the sofa, Woolsey chuck-chucking, cock-a-doodle-dooing, and performing those indescribable freaks which gentlemen with philoprogenitive organs will execute in the company of children — in the midst of their play the baby gave

Mens Wives 2006