cock, rooster
(noun) adult male chicken
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Rooster
The tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
• reroots, rooters, toreros
rooster (plural roosters)
(North America, Kent, Australia, NZ) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
(figuratively, obsolete slang) An informer.
(figuratively, obsolete slang) A violent or disorderly person.
(figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
(figuratively, originally US slang, now chiefly NZ) A man.
(regional US, historical) A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
(obsolete US slang) Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.
• (male chicken): cock
• (informant): See informant
• (violent person): brawler
• (powerful person): See important person
• (pompous person): cock of the walk, cock of the roost
• (man): See man
• (male chicken): chicken, fowl
• (male chicken): cockerel (young rooster)
• (male chicken): hen
• reroots, rooters, toreros
Source: Wiktionary
Roost"er, n.
Definition: The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [U.S.] Nor, when they [the Skinners and Cow Boys] wrung the neck of a rooster, did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George. W. Irving.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 November 2024
(adjective) furnished with inhabitants; āthe area is well populatedā; āforests populated with all kinds of wild lifeā
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
