Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rooster.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cock: a quasi-proper name used like reynard, bruin, and other similar appellatives.
- n. A local English name of the gemmous dragonet, Callionymus draco.
Wiktionary
- n. a rooster or cock
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing.
Etymologies
- Middle English chauntecler, from Old French chantecler, the name of the rooster in the tale of Reynard the Fox : chanter, to sing; see chant + cler, clear; see clear.
Examples
“And you rolling to bed and shouting like chanticleer, 'Sing cucu, sing cucu, cucu nu nu cucu, sing cucu, sing cucu, sing cucu, sing cucu.”
“The group is the Grammy-winning all-male vocal ensemble Chanticleer (chanticleer. org), which had sung some holiday songs on the Today show last Friday.”
“By Anonymous, at Mon Jan 15, 02:36:00 PM where was that statement, chanticleer?”
“And chanticleer, I remember the translation service once informing us in Committee that the Welsh-speaking Chief Executive of the Wales Tourist Board had said "In Wales, it is usually p**sing down".”
“He had a couple of bedrooms adjacent to this sitting-room, and when Binnie, as brisk and rosy about the gills as chanticleer, broke out in a morning salutation, “Hush,” says the”
“In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy, relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace-of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.”
“As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.”
“In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.”
“Looking up past creeper-grown lattice windows, Wexford noticed its fellow, a crowing chanticleer on the weather vane.”
A Guilty Thing Surprised
“At any rate, that strutting chanticleer, with his two meagre wives and one wizened chicken, is a sly side fleer at the tragic aspect of the law of descent.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chanticleer’.
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Antics
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The Encantadas
"I then pictured these three straightforward monsters, century after century, writhing through the shades, grim as blacksmiths; crawling so slowly and ponderously, that not not only did toadstools ...
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myth Day rattles, too,
Stealth's slow;
The sun has got as far
As the third sycamore.
Screams chanticleer.
"Who's there?" - Emily Dickinson Jun 28, 2009
myth A rooster Jun 28, 2009