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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
).
