# rooster
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɹuːstə/
* (US) IPA: /ˈɹustəɹ/, enPR: roo͞'stər
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːstə(ɹ)

### Noun

rooster (plural roosters)
* (Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
** 1772 March 14, A.G. Winslow, Diary:Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.
** 1836, Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada, page 308:The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.
** 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 616:Chalk a circle for a rooster.
* A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
** 1949, British Birds, 42, p. 323:The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.
** 1999, Milton W. Weller, Wetland Birds: Habitat Resources and Conservation Implications:Ground roosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls […] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators.
* (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.
** 1946, Conrad Richter, The Fields, page 231:In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.
* (obsolete US slang) Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.
** 1869 July, Southern Review, page 54:American demoralisation... has carried rooster into the halls of republican legislation, where it indicates a bill or proposed law which will remunerate the legislators.

#### 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

* cock rooster
* rooster booster
* roosterfish (Nematistius pectoralis)
* roosterly
* roosterness
* rooster sauce
* roostertail, rooster-tail

#### Related terms

* roost

#### 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: /ˈroː.stər/
* Audio:(file)
* 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

* broodrooster
* dienstrooster
* inroosteren
* lesrooster
* roosteren
* tropenrooster
* uurrooster
* veerooster
* vierkant rooster
* wildrooster

##### 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