roostcock
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editroostcock (plural roostcocks)
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
- 1843, The Illuminated Magazine:
- No matter whether his nag have the stringhalt, and steps like a roostcock, or has wind-galls the size of bladders, or has been fired till his legs resemble a scored griskin, the BUTCHER's Boy braves every competitor in the race
References
edit- “roostcock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.