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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?st/
• Rhymes: -u?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from Old English hr?st (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?staz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijan?.

Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).

Noun

roost (plural roosts)

1. The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).

   • He clapp'd his wings upon his roost.

2. A group of birds roosting together.
3. A bedroom
4. (Scotland) The inner roof of a cottage.

Derived terms

• rule the roost

Translations

Verb

roost (third-person singular simple present roosts, present participle roosting, simple past and past participle roosted)

1. (intransitive, of birds or bats) To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
2. (figuratively) to spend the night

See also

• the chickens come home to roost

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old Norse róst

Noun

roost (plural roosts)

1. (Shetland and Orkney) A tidal race.

Etymology 3

Verb

roost (third-person singular simple present roosts, present participle roosting, simple past and past participle roosted)

1. Alternative form of roust

Anagrams

• Sorto, Toors, ostro, roots, rotos, stoor, toros, torso

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish rúsc, from Proto-Celtic *ruskos (compare Welsh rhisgl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru?s/

Noun

roost m (genitive singular roost, plural roostyn)

1. peel, rind
2. bark

Derived terms

• neuroostit (“unbarked”)

Verb

roost (verbal noun roostey, past participle rooisht)

1. to strip, peel, hull, rind, unbark
2. to rob
3. to bare
4. to debunk
5. to rifle
6. to deprive

Middle English

Noun

roost

1. Alternative form of roste (“roast”)

English

Etymology

roost +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??u?st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??ust??/, enPR: roo?'st?r
• Rhymes: -u?st?(?)

Noun

rooster (plural roosters)

1. (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, p. 308:

     The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, iii, xvi, p. 616:

     Chalk a circle for a rooster.

2. 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.
3. (figuratively, obsolete slang) An informer.
4. (figuratively, obsolete slang) A violent or disorderly person.
5. (figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
6. (figuratively, originally US slang, now chiefly New Zealand) A man.
7. (regional US, historical) A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
   • 1946, Conrad Richter, The Fields, p. 231:

     In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.

8. (obsolete US slang) Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.
   • 1869 July, Southern Review, p. 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

• roosterly
• roosterness
• roostertail

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

Etymology

From Middle Dutch roost, from Frankish *raustjan, from Proto-Germanic *raustijan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro?st?r/
• Hyphenation: roos?ter
• Rhymes: -o?st?r

Noun

rooster n or m (plural roosters, diminutive roostertje n)

1. grill, grid a metallic maze-structure; some things containing one
2. a device for roasting
3. roster, timetable
4. (crystallographic) lattice.

Derived terms

• broodrooster
• uurrooster
• vierkant rooster

Related terms

• roosteren

Verb

rooster

1. first-person singular present indicative of roosteren
2. imperative of roosteren

Anagrams

• torero's