rooster

Definition

A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.

Etymology

From roost + -er. In the regions where it is used, displaced cock through taboo avoidance.

Example Sentences

• "Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt."
• "The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird."
• "Chalk a circle for a rooster."

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