Roost vs Coost - What's the difference?
roost | coost |
The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
* Dryden
A group of birds roosting together.
(obsolete, or, Scottish) (cast)
* {{quote-book, year=1868, author=Alexander Hislop, title=The Proverbs of Scotland, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I had but little butter, an' that I coost on the coals. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1780, author=Robert Burns, title=Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns, chapter=, edition=
, passage=1783 Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe., The An Unco Mournfu' Tale As Mailie, an' her lambs thegither, Was ae day nibbling on the tether, Upon her cloot she coost a hitch, An' owre she warsl'd in the ditch: There, groaning, dying, she did lie, When Hughoc he cam doytin by. }}
As verbs the difference between roost and coost
is that roost is sleep while coost is past tense of cast.As a noun roost
is the place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).roost
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He clapped his wings upon his roost .
Derived terms
* rule the roostEtymology 2
From (etyl)Etymology 3
Anagrams
* ----coost
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Verb
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