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roosterish

roosterish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a rooster.

Adjective

roosterish (comparative more roosterish, superlative most roosterish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a rooster.
    • Jimmy Lah was pouring some soapy blender concoction for the bar's only customer besides himself, a fruitcake with a roosterish yellow Mohawk and oversized pink eyeglasses.1988, Peter Straub, Koko, Anchor Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 62
    • When Kayak Boy was mad he put his shoulders back and stuck his head forward, a roosterish stance that reminded me of Travis.2012, Mary Stewart Atwell, Wild Girls, Doubleday Canada, →ISBN
  2. (figuratively) Cocky, arrogant, prideful.
    • "Poor boy," said Patience sympathetically, and Fisher eyed her with suddenly aroused manhood. "And that's all?"
      His big shoulders drooped, and the roosterish look went out of his eyes.1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 24
    • […] and when it was over he would blink and smirk around at the ladies, with a roosterish pride quite engaging to behold.1955, Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar, Little, Brown and Company, published 2013, →ISBN

Examples of roosterish in a sentence

  • Perhaps in reference to its spectacular, arguably roosterish, red comb-like frontal plate.2013, Jeannie Gray, Ian Fraser, Australian Bird Names: A Complete Guide, CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, page 86:
  • He is very handsome, though too roosterish for me, with his big yacht and yellow sports car and overenthusiastic swimming.2012, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Triurbia, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

Forms of roosterish

comparativemore roosterish
superlativemost roosterish

Origin of roosterish

From rooster + -ish.

Questions about roosterish

What does roosterish mean?
Roosterish means resembling or characteristic of a rooster.
How do you use roosterish in a sentence?
Perhaps in reference to its spectacular, arguably roosterish, red comb-like frontal plate.
What part of speech is roosterish?
Roosterish is an adjective.

Words near roosterish in the dictionary

  1. roosterfish
  2. roosterfishes
  3. roosterhead
  4. roosterheads
  5. roosterhood
  6. roosterish
  7. roosterless
  8. roosterlike
  9. roosterly
  10. roosterness
  11. roosters

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