cockless

Updated: July 7, 2025

I'll go over to Peasley's and wait for Abe there." "Look here," said the latter. "You both remind me of a man in a Kentucky village who couldn't bear to hear a rooster crow. It kept him awake nights, for the roosters did a lot o' crowing down there. He moved from one place to another, trying to find a cockless town. He couldn't. There was no such place in Kentucky.

Irving Bacheller - A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy