rooster

rooster
Synonyms and related words:
Bantam, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, billy, billy goat, boar, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bubbly-jock, buck, bull, bullock, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, dog, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, entire, entire horse, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hart, he-goat, hen, hen turkey, partlet, peacock, poulard, poult, poultry, pullet, ram, roaster, setting hen, spring chicken, stag, stallion, steer, stewing chicken, stot, stud, studhorse, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, tup, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, wether

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Rooster — Roost er, n. The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Rooster — Rooster, est le label d une compagnie de disque indépendante américaine. Artistes produits : Eddy Clearwater Portail de la musique Catégorie : Label de musique indépendant …   Wikipédia en Français

  • rooster — 1772, agent noun from ROOST (Cf. roost) (earlier roost cock, c.1600), in sense of the roosting bird, favored in the U.S. originally as a puritan alternative to COCK (Cf. cock) (and compare ROACH (Cf. roach)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • rooster — ► NOUN chiefly N. Amer. ▪ a male domestic fowl …   English terms dictionary

  • rooster — [ro͞os′tər] n. [ ROOST + ER] the adult male of the chicken and other, similar birds …   English World dictionary

  • Rooster — Cockadoodledoo and Cocka doodle doo redirect here. For the nursery rhyme, see Cock a doodle doo. For other uses, see Rooster (disambiguation). A rooster, showing wattles, earlobes and comb …   Wikipedia

  • Rooster — Эпизод мультсериала Поллитровая мышь Rooster …   Википедия

  • rooster — n. (esp. AE) a rooster cock a doodle doos, crows, goes cock a doodle doo (BE has cock) * * * [ ruːstə] crows goes cock a doodle doo (BE has cock) (esp. AE) a rooster cock a doodle doos …   Combinatory dictionary

  • rooster — UK [ˈruːstə(r)] / US [ˈrustər] noun [countable] Word forms rooster : singular rooster plural roosters mainly American a male chicken. The usual British word is cock …   English dictionary

  • rooster — [“rusta* ] n. the posterior; one’s butt end. (Old. Because one roosts on it.) □ Don’t just sit there on your rooster. Get to work. □ I fell down smack on my rooster …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • rooster —    This is a mainly American term for a cock, one that has sometimes been applied to a man who is cocky, or vain.    The occasional instances of vocative use that come to light, however, appear to be reasonably flattering. In George Meredith’s… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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