ROOSTER

cock, rooster

(noun) adult male chicken

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Rooster

The tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

Anagrams

• reroots, rooters, toreros

Etymology

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (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

Hypernyms

• (male chicken): chicken, fowl

Hyponyms

• (male chicken): cockerel (young rooster)

Coordinate terms

• (male chicken): hen

Anagrams

• reroots, rooters, toreros

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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