chanticleer
English
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English Chauntecleer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French Chantecler (modern Chanteclair), the proper name of the cock in the literary cycle of Reynard the Fox, that also gave origin to chantecler, the name of a chicken breed; from chanter (“to sing, to crow”) + cler (“clear, clearly”).
Attested in English since 1250–1300.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: chan‧ti‧cleer
Noun
chanticleer (plural chanticleers)
- (now rare, literary) A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, “Act 2”, in As You Like It[1], scene 7:
- When I did hear / The motley fool, thus moral on the time, / My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, / That fools should be so deep-contemplative […].
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Verb
chanticleer (third-person singular simple present chanticleers, present participle chanticleering, simple past and past participle chanticleered)
- To make the crowing sound of a cock.
- To crow in exultation.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “chanticleer”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “chanticleer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “chanticleer”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “chanticleer”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.