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).
例文
1. The rooster chased me across the dirt floor of the barn.
雄鶏が私を追いかけて納屋の土の地面を走った。
2.The rooster 's crow woke me.
雄鶏の鳴き声で目が覚めた。
3.The rooster bristled his crest.
雄鶏が鶏冠を立てた。
4.The rooster flew up to a big rock and began to crow.
雄鶏が大きな石に飛び乗り、鳴き始めた。
5.The late moon arose before the first rooster crowed.