rooster

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹuːstə/    美 /ˈɹustəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird. Australia,Canada,Kent,New-Zealand,US
    — Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.
  2. A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting. countable,uncountable
    — The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.
  3. An informer. countable,figuratively,obsolete,slang,uncountable
  4. A violent or disorderly person. countable,figuratively,obsolete,slang,uncountable
  5. A powerful, prideful, or pompous person. countable,figuratively,uncountable
  6. A man. New-Zealand,countable,figuratively,uncountable
  7. A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting. US,countable,historical,regional,uncountable
    — In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.
  8. Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it. US,obsolete,slang,uncountable
    — American demoralisation... has carried rooster into the halls of republican legislation, where it indicates a bill or proposed law which will remunerate the legislators.

词形变化

roosters plural roo alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
cock rooster rooster booster roosterfish roosterhood roosterish roosterless roosterlike roosterly roosterness rooster sauce roostership roostertail rooster-tail
相关词
roost cock-a-doodle-doo

词源

From roost + -er. In the regions where it is used, displaced cock through taboo avoidance.
Compare typologically Russian насе́дка (nasédka) (akin to наси́живать (nasíživatʹ), also akin to насе́ст (nasést)).
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