Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An adult male chicken.
- noun An adult male of certain other birds.
- noun A person regarded as cocky or pugnacious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The male of the domestic hen; a cock, as distinguished from the female or hen.
- noun Any bird that roosts; a percher. See
Insessores . - noun In lumbering, same as
goose-neck , 4 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U.S. The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A male domestic
fowl ,Gallus gallus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun adult male chicken
Etymologies
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Examples
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In my last entry I believe I wrote somthing to the like of being woken up at 4 cuz it sounds like the rooster is at my window.
Archive 2008-08-01 KateG 2008
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In my last entry I believe I wrote somthing to the like of being woken up at 4 cuz it sounds like the rooster is at my window.
Im ALIVE KateG 2008
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Small coincidence that the rooster is a popular bird (symbol) in Mexico.
Foot on your neck... 2006
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Please call it Asana Yoga, although what you describe as a rooster position is very far removed from Yoga.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Please call it Asana Yoga, although what you describe as a rooster position is very far removed from Yoga.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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And now, this hypercompetitive bantam rooster is attempting to blame others for what went wrong.
Wednesday Afternoon Legitimate Complaints « Gerry Canavan 2010
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An old farmer raises a few chickens and pigs and has a cow or two but his rooster is getting old.
Amateur Hour 2009
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They go up to the house and the old rooster takes off, he rounds the corner and heads out in front of the front porch, the young rooster is quickly catching up and when he is only a few feet behind BANG the farmer shoots the young rooster and mutters to himself, "dang, that's the third gay rooster I've bought this month."
Amateur Hour 2009
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That he is sometimes called "rooster" made me think less of cock, than of Jeff Bridges' character in True Grit, Rooster Coburn.
Regina Weinreich: Jerusalem on Broadway: No Trip to the Holy Land Regina Weinreich 2011
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That he is sometimes called "rooster" made me think less of cock, than of Jeff Bridges' character in True Grit, Rooster Coburn.
Regina Weinreich: Jerusalem on Broadway: No Trip to the Holy Land Regina Weinreich 2011
sionnach commented on the word rooster
February 9, 2009