rooster
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Is rooster a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of rooster?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.Examples: "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."Synonyms: cockAustraliaCanadaKentNew-ZealandUS
2. (figuratively, obsolete slang) An informer.Synonyms: informantfigurativelyobsoleteslang
3. (figuratively, obsolete slang) A violent or disorderly person.Synonyms: brawlerfigurativelyobsoleteslang
4. (figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.Synonyms: important person, cock of the walk, cock of the roostfiguratively
5. (figuratively, originally US slang, now chiefly New Zealand) A man.Synonyms: manNew-Zealandfiguratively
6. (regional US, historical) A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.Examples: "In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off."UShistoricalregional
Definition source: Wiktionary