weathercock

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

weerhaan

windhaan

windwijzer

Synoniemen

weather vane

weathervane

vane

weather-vane

anemometer

wind gauge

giddy person

wind vane

frivolous person

wind cone

wheeler

cock

flibbertigibbet

scatterbrain

Vertalingen

girouette

veleta

banderuola

ανεμοδείκτης

Wetterhahn

Wetterfahne

cata-vento

rüzgârgülü

Windfahne

fırıldak

Windrichtungsgeber

étourdi

étourneau

écervelé

penell

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: wetharcoke

In summary

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