different between rooster vs coke

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Middle English colke.

Alternative forms

• coak (obsolete)

Noun

coke (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
   • The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.

Derived terms

• biocoke

Translations

Verb

coke (third-person singular simple present cokes, present participle coking, simple past and past participle coked)

1. (transitive) To produce coke from coal.
2. (intransitive) To turn into coke.
3. (automotive) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.

Derived terms

• decoke
• decoking

Translations

Etymology 2

Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.

Noun

coke (uncountable)

1. (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

Translations

See also

• coca

Etymology 3

1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.

Noun

coke (plural cokes)

1. (uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
2. (countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
3. (US, chiefly Southern US, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).

Synonyms

• (soft drink): see the list at soda

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “coke”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?k/
• Hyphenation: coke
• Rhymes: -o?k
• Homophone: kook

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English coke.

Noun

coke m (plural cokes)

1. (chiefly in the plural) coke (type of processed carbon used as fuel)

Usage notes

The singular is less common than the plural form in Dutch, which may also be used like an uncountable singular.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English coke.

Noun

coke m (uncountable)

1. (slang) cocaine, coke

   Synonym: cocaïne

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English coke (“residue from roasting in a coal oven”).

Noun

coke m (plural cokes)

1. coke (form of carbon)

Derived terms

• cokerie

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English coke (“cocaine”).

Noun

coke f (plural cokes)

1. coke (cocaine)

Synonyms

• cocaïne

Further reading

• “coke” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

coke m (invariable)

1. coke (form of carbon)