SC - Chicken names

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In a message dated 9/14/00 10:43:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
irruth56 at hotmail.com writes:

<< Yes! Rooster >>

No. 

roost*er (noun)
First appeared 1772
 1 a : an adult male domestic fowl : COCK
   b : an adult male of various birds other than the domestic fowl
 2 : a cocky or vain man

Definitely different from the 'young' male fowl which is cockerel. Think  
cockerel/rooster= boy/man. :-)

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