• n. 公雞；狂妄自負的人

來自 roost,棲息，-er,表物。后用于委婉語代指 cock,公雞，因該詞賦予了過多的粗俗俚語義。

rooster (n.)

1772, agent noun from roost (v.); earlier roost cock, c. 1600, in sense of "the roosting bird." Favored in the U.S. originally as a puritan alternative to cock (n.) after it had acquired the secondary sense "penis" (and compare roach).

1. The rooster chased me across the dirt floor of the barn.

公雞追著我跑過谷倉的泥土地面。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The rooster's crow woke me.

公雞的啼叫聲把我吵醒了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The rooster bristled his crest.

公雞豎起了雞冠.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

4. The rooster flew up to a big rock and began to crow.

公雞飛上大石頭，開始鳴叫。

來自辭典例句

5. The late moon arose before the first rooster crowed.

公雞未啼,下弦月已經掛在天邊.

來自辭典例句