Usually means: Foolish man; ornamental garden flower.
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  1. coxcomb: Merriam-Webster
  2. coxcomb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coxcomb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coxcomb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coxcomb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coxcomb, coxcomb: Wordnik
  7. coxcomb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. coxcomb: Wiktionary
  9. coxcomb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coxcomb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coxcomb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Coxcomb, coxcomb: Dictionary.com
  13. coxcomb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Coxcomb (ornithology), Coxcomb, The Coxcomb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Coxcomb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. coxcomb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. coxcomb: Rhymezone
  18. Coxcomb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. coxcomb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Coxcomb: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. Coxcomb: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. coxcomb: FreeDictionary.org
  23. coxcomb: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. coxcomb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. coxcomb: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Coxcomb: World Wide Words
  27. coxcomb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. coxcomb: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Coxcomb (ornithology), coxcomb: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coxcomb: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coxcomb: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coxcomb: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. coxcomb: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See coxcombical as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (historical) The cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe.
noun:  The fleshy red pate of a rooster.
noun:  (by extension) A foolish or conceited person; a dandy.

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