weathercock

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
2. (figuratively) One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
3. (Canada, US) A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.
2. (intransitive) To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.
3. (transitive) To act as a weathercock for.

Concetti

banderuola

girandola

segnavento

voltagabbana

ventarola

girotta

banderola

testa sventata

uomo sventato

farfallone

galletto segnavento

sinonimi

weather vane

weathervane

vane

weather-vane

anemometer

wind gauge

giddy person

wind vane

frivolous person

wind cone

wheeler

cock

flibbertigibbet

scatterbrain

Traduzioni

girouette

veleta

ανεμοδείκτης

Wetterfahne

Wetterhahn

cata-vento

weerhaan

windwijzer

windhaan

fırıldak

rüzgârgülü

Windfahne

giralda

dönek kimse

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: wetharcoke

In summary

From Middle English wetharcoke, weþercok, wedercoc, wederkok, equivalent to weather + cock.