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the alarm clock that screams at the sun for being late.
means A male chicken, especially an adult one kept for breeding or, famously, for its loud dawn crowing.
from A plainly American coinage: an agent noun from 'roost,' literally 'one that roosts,' i.e., 'the bird that perches.' It rose to favor as a polite substitute for the older word 'cock,' which had grown awkward in genteel mouths. 'Roost' itself goes back to Old English 'hrost,' a perch or framework where birds settle for the night — so a rooster is, etymologically, simply a sleeper-on-a-pole, which makes its reputation for raucous early rising slightly ironic.
- pre-crow brace
- Tilts head to dodge its own deafening crow.
- pecking royalty
- Top hen ranks above lowborn roosters in the yard.
- daylight tyrant
- Crows at dawn, dusk, noise, and pure spite.
- hidden ears
- Genes auto-protect their hearing from self-inflicted volume.
chanticleer — famous rooster from medieval literature and chaucer's canterbury tales, repeatedly referenced character
peter the rooster — rooster in west point, new york, whose crowing was documented as a mascot for over 20 years