Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rooster.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cock: a quasi-proper name used like reynard, bruin, and other similar appellatives.
- noun A local English name of the gemmous dragonet, Callionymus draco.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rooster or cock.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"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.'"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By Anonymous, at Mon Jan 15, 02:36:00 PM where was that statement, chanticleer?
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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".
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
myth commented on the word chanticleer
A rooster
June 28, 2009
myth commented on the word chanticleer
Day rattles, too,
Stealth's slow;
The sun has got as far
As the third sycamore.
Screams chanticleer.
"Who's there?" - Emily Dickinson
June 28, 2009