Cock vs Dick (English-speakers)

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Hello,

This is something I've been wondering for some time now... I'm kind of a language nerd and English is not my first language, so I'd like to ask native speakers if they see a difference between 'cock' and 'dick'.

Is one British English and the other American? Is one more 'vulgar' than the other? ... or maybe there's no difference and they're perfect synonyms.

I'm not sure how this question would be received on a regular language forum, so I thought why not ask here :)
 

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I don't believe there is a geographic distinction between the two terms. I have heard English guys use both terms fairly interchangeably.

For me, however, there is a distinction - more in the way the terms are used than anything. To my mind "dick" is more lighthearted, friendly, jokey in a "guys teasing each other" kind of way. Cock is somehow more primal, more raw, more sexual - and more derogatory as an insult.

Maybe this is just me - other guys may think completely the opposite.
 

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I regard cock and dick, when used as sexual terms, as being entirely synonymous with one another. I certainly describe my penis using both words interchangeably, and do not give it any thought. It may be that cock is used a little more frequently in English than in American English, but that's about all the difference I can think of.

Moreover, since both words have polite and commonly-used alternative meanings beyond their deployment as vulgar slang, I would not consider one to be more obscene than the other.
 
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Cock is a word usually used to identify male birdlife. Having being raised by a father who had racing pigeons as well as other bird species cock was a word I heard everyday. Dick is another name for Richard. Cock for me comes across as the stronger of the two because it is used to describe male.

I spose Dick could be too, maybe we can start calling vaginas Doras. Is ok, you have to be old to remember Dick and Dora, Nip and Fluff.. :)
 
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I remember being a young boy, and "dick" was a term boys used as well as other juvenile terms (such as weiner, peeter, peepee, dingaling, ding-dong, etc.) "Dick" continued to be used and is not considered juvenile, but more universal across ages. "Cock" used to be very vulgar several decades ago, and still carries more punch. The mental image of "dick" can be hanging, swinging around, flopping; but "cock" has a mental image of at least partial erection, seeing as it is cocked and ready to fire.
 

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You will hear "dick" used for both jokey and serious insults 99% of the time. I can't remember the last time I heard someone call someone else a "cock". Sexually they're synonymous with "cock" having a bit more of a raw, primal punch as someone said earlier.
 

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A past lover corrected me ever so nicely after the first time we had sex. He did not want his dick called a cock. I never forgot it.
So I agree that here in the US it may be a color thing too.
On seperate occasions, I have heard black men say, "Black men don't have cocks, they have dicks."
 

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I don't think that there's any definitive difference. To me, though, "cock" emphasises the sexual function and, by extension, the enjoyment that goes with it, whereas "dick" is a more neutral term. But that might be just me, and I couldn't say if that is a generally held idea.
 

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A dick is just a penis a cock is a big/huge penis IMHO ther is no such thing as a small cock it is a contradiction in terms. There can be a big dick but that would also be a cock. An cock is more vulgar because is is exclusively sexual when talking about a penis but dick can be sexual or just a body part for excreting urine.
 

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According to the Dictionary:
A Cock is a "faucet or valve by which the flow of a liquid or gas can be regulated". First used in the 15th Century.

A Cock is a "penis" was first used ca. 1610.
The term "pillicock" as a penis started in the 1300s
 
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According to the Dictionary:
A Cock is a "faucet or valve by which the flow of a liquid or gas can be regulated". First used in the 15th Century.

A Cock is a "penis" was first used ca. 1610.
The term "pillicock" as a penis started in the 1300s

It was a Dicktionary you plundered your knowledge from wasn't it? Hard covered version?
 
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