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English

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Rooster
Rooster
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Etymology

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Fromroost +‎-er. In the regions where it is used, displacedcock through taboo avoidance.

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Noun

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rooster (pluralroosters)

  1. (Canada,US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) Amaledomesticchicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) orothergallinaceousbird.
    • 1772 March 14, A.G. Winslow,Diary:
      Their other dish[…] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & allroosters at this season no doubt.
    • 1836, Catharine Parr Traill,The Backwoods of Canada, page308:
      The produce of two hens and a cock, orrooster, as the Yankees term that bird.
    • 1922 February,James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, inUlysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company, […],→OCLC, part III [Nostos],page616:
      Chalk a circle for arooster.
  2. Abird orbat whichroosts or isroosting.
    • 1949,British Birds,42, p. 323:
      The more leisured flight of theroosters [sc.starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.
    • 1999, Milton W. Weller,Wetland Birds: Habitat Resources and Conservation Implications:
      Groundroosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls[…] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators.
  3. (figuratively, obsolete slang) Aninformer.
  4. (figuratively, obsolete slang) Aviolent ordisorderlyperson.
  5. (figuratively) Apowerful,prideful, orpompousperson.
  6. (figuratively, originally US slang, now chiefly New Zealand) Aman.
  7. (regional US, historical) Awildviolet, whenused in achildren'sgamebased oncockfighting.
    • 1946, Conrad Richter,The Fields, page231:
      In April they played Hens andRoosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.
  8. (obsolete US slang)Legislationsolelydevised tobenefit thelegislatorsproposing it.
    • 1869 July,Southern Review, page54:
      American demoralisation... has carriedrooster into the halls of republican legislation, where it indicates a bill or proposed law which will remunerate the legislators.

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Coordinate terms

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  • (male chicken):hen

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Translations

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male chicken; male gallinaceous bird
informant—seeinformant
violent person—seebrawler
powerful person—seebig cheese
flower—seeviolet

See also

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References

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  • "rooster,n.", in theOxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Dutchrooster, derived from the verbroosten.

Noun

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rooster n orm (pluralroosters,diminutiveroostertje n)

  1. grill,grid a metallic maze-structure; some things containing one
  2. a device forroasting
  3. roster,timetable
  4. (crystallographic)lattice
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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rooster

  1. inflection ofroosteren:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

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