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

[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.]

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From Old French chantecler, the proper name of the cock in Reynard the Fox.

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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.'"

    Chapter 11 2010

  • 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.

    Albert Imperato: Chanticleer Hits Prime Time 2009

  • 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.

    Albert Imperato: Chanticleer Hits Prime Time 2009

  • 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.

    Albert Imperato: Chanticleer Hits Prime Time 2009

  • By Anonymous, at Mon Jan 15, 02:36:00 PM where was that statement, chanticleer?

    The Voters Deserve a Choice Glyn Davies 2007

  • 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".

    Extending Parliamentary Language Glyn Davies 2007

  • 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

    The Newcomes 2006

  • 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.

    Washington Irving 2004

  • 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.

    Walden 2004

  • 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.

    The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

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  • A rooster

    June 28, 2009

  • 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