Rooster

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Rhymes with -uːstə(ɹ)

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)).

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

The tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.