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Rooster vs Chanticleer - What's the difference?

rooster | chanticleer |

As nouns the difference between rooster and chanticleer

is that rooster is a male of any species of gallinaceous bird. Typically refers to the domestic chicken, species: Gallus gallus domesticus while chanticleer is a rooster or cock.

rooster

English

(wikipedia rooster)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A male of any species of gallinaceous bird. Typically refers to the domestic chicken, .

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * roosterly * roosterness * roostertail

    See also

    * chicken * cock-a-doodle-doo * cockerel * hen

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) ----

    chanticleer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rooster or cock.
  • *c.1599 , (William Shakespeare), As You Like It , act 2, scene 7:
  • *:When I did heare / The motley Foole, thus morall on the time, / My Lungs began to crow like Chanticleere , / That Fooles should be so deepe contemplatiue.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:It is happily some particular sense that unto cockes or chanticleares discovereth the morning and midnight houre, and moveth them to crow.