rooster
pronunciation
How to pronounce rooster in British English:
UK [ˈruːstə(r)]
How to pronounce rooster in American English:
US [ˈruːstər]
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- Noun:
- adult male chicken
Word Origin
- rooster (n.)
- 1772, agent noun from roost (v.); earlier roost cock, c. 1600, in sense of "the roosting bird." Favored in the U.S. originally as a puritan alternative to cock (n.) after it had acquired the secondary sense "penis" (and compare roach).
Example
- 1. Rooster : I 'll be glad to show you ......
- 2. Rooster 's mobile home is parked beneath the leaves of real trees , with a hen coop , and a clutter of broken furniture .
- 3. The hour swept clean for rooster 's crowing .
- 4. A voodoo believer offers a rooster to the spirits at a mass ritual during the plaine du nord festival
- 5. They compared sperm from a fruit fly , sea urchin , rooster , fish and human .