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  • really answer your question, but both Merriam-Webster and the AHD give cockchafer = cock + chafer as the etymology. As to why the "cock"... I don't know...
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  • I have been preparing an article on one of the five HMS Cockchafer ships HMS Cockchafer (1915) and wanted to have a disambiguation page so that there...
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  • Totor, Patrol Leader of the Cockchafers seems less than dubious to me. "Cock"+"Chafers"?? There are no external links on the page. I typed in the page...
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  • Hello fellow Wikipedians, I have just modified 3 external links on HMS Cockchafer (1915). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions...
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  • Australia portal Red-headed cockchafer is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related...
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  • that there are several species that have similar characteristics. (See Cockchafer, which covers three species that are all very much alike.) Consider making...
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  • Agree as well. Perhaps people also want to comment on a similar discussion at Totor, Patrol Leader of the Cockchafers? Fram 14:56, 13 November 2007 (UTC)...
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  • Slovak too, people use an analogous idiom refering to immortality of the cockchafer (or may bug) rather than crab (rozmýšľať o nesmrteľnosti chrústa). Brona...
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  • is likeliest a native German word, not from Arabic. Compare English "cockchafer". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:29, 9 May 2015 (UTC) I went to my local...
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  • that all mean something like "beetle", for example, Maggiolino (Italian, cockchafer), Buba (Serbo-Croat, beetle), or Bogár (Magyar, beetle). I don't think...
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  • patrouille des Hannetons'' (''The Adventures of Totor, Leader of the [[Cockchafer]] Patrol''), appeared in the magazine ''Le Boy-Scout Belge'' between 1926...
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  • including larvae and pupae of Curculionidae,[64] Coleoptera (particularly cockchafers of the genus Melolontha),[66] Diptera, and Lepidoptera species. The best...
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