rooster

== English == === Alternative forms === roo (clipping, slang) === Etymology === From roost +‎ -er. In the regions where it is used, displaced cock through taboo avoidance. Compare typologically Russian насе́дка (nasédka) (akin to наси́живать (nasíživatʹ), also akin to насе́ст (nasést)). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹuːstə/ (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /ˈɹʉwstə/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹustɚ/, enPR: roo͞'stər (Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɹʉːstə/ (Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɾuːstə/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈɾʉstəɾ/ (Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈɻʉstəɻ/ Rhymes: -uːstə(ɹ) === Noun === rooster (countable and uncountable, plural roosters) (Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) 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 New Zealand) A man. (regional US, historical) A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting. (obsolete, US, slang, uncountable) Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it. ==== Synonyms ==== (male chicken): cock (informant): See Thesaurus:informant (violent person): brawler (powerful person): See Thesaurus:important person (pompous person): cock of the walk, cock of the roost (man): See Thesaurus:man ==== Hypernyms ==== (male chicken): chicken, fowl ==== Hyponyms ==== (male chicken): cockerel (young rooster) ==== Coordinate terms ==== (male chicken): hen ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== roost ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== cock-a-doodle-doo === References === "rooster, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press. === Anagrams === reroots, rooters, toreros == Dutch == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈroː.stər/ Hyphenation: roos‧ter Rhymes: -oːstər === Etymology 1 === From Middle Dutch rooster, derived from the verb roosten. ==== Noun ==== rooster n or m (plural roosters, diminutive roostertje n) grill, grid a metallic maze-structure; some things containing one a device for roasting roster, timetable (crystallographic) lattice ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Papiamentu: roster === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== rooster inflection of roosteren: first-person singular present indicative (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative imperative === References === van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “rooster”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute === Anagrams === torero's