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Word entry · 7 letters

rooster

Best crossword clue

"Barnyard crower"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹuːstə/Part of speech nounSorted eoorrstStarts with REnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. adult male chicken

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.
  • The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.
  • Chalk a circle for a rooster.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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