Synonyms of the word rooster


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rooster

  • n. (US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous…
  • n. A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
  • n. (figuratively, obsolete slang) An informer.
  • n. (figuratively, obsolete slang) A violent or disorderly person.
  • n. (figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
  • n. (figuratively, originally US slang, now chiefly New Zealand) A man.
  • n. (regional US, historical) A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
  • n. (obsolete US slang) Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.

chicken

  • n. (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.
  • n. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
  • n. (countable, slang) A coward.
  • n. (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
  • n. (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
  • n. The game of dare.
  • adj. (informal) Cowardly.
  • v. (intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

cock

  • n. A male bird, especially.
  • n. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
  • n. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
  • n. The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
  • n. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
  • n. (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
  • n. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
  • n. (Britain, New Zealand, pejorative, slang) A stupid person.
  • n. (informal, Britain, Tasmania) Term of address.
  • n. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
  • n. (informal) shuttlecock.
  • n. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
  • n. (dated, humorous) A chief man; a leader or master.
  • n. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
  • n. The style or gnomon of a sundial.
  • n. The indicator of a balance.
  • n. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to…
  • v. (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
  • v. (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
  • v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To copulate with.
  • v. (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision…
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (of children).
  • interj. (slang) Expression of annoyance.
  • n. (dated in the Southern US, still sometimes found in African American Vernacular) Vulva, vagina.
  • n. A small conical pile of hay.
  • v. (transitive) To form into piles.
  • n. Short for cock-boat, a type of small boat.
  • p.n. (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

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