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10 letters · 26 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult
originFrom cock (“male bird”) + chafer (“beetle”). The Oxford English Dictionary speculates that the name may relate to a resemblance of antennae to coxcomb, or to the beetle’s size. Compare French hanneton (“cockchafer”), ultimately from Frankish *hanō (“rooster”). First attested in the late 17th century.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- chack 16
- check 16
- chock 16
- archfoe 15
- choker 15
- hacker 15
- hocker 15
- caroche 14
- coacher 14
- chafer 14
- cocker 14
- recock 14