Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being a rooster, or having characteristics typical of a rooster; cockiness.
They jerk up their feet with cocky roosterness as if they have not yet heard about the two-legged beasts who are going to make slaves of their wives.
2008, Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible3 more examples
"That was another reason for my roosterness. A novel written and accepted by a publishing house, and I was nineteen years old. Nineteen!" he said, laughing again and shaking his massive head […]
1959, Elizabeth Enright, The Riddle of the Fly: & Other Stories, page 153At last, having gained confidence in his identity, he stopped and let out a crow of pride in his roosterness. Then he stepped over to me and looked up, his head cocked to one side.
1991, Isaiah Oke, Joe Wright, Blood Secrets, page 9Mihalis accepts his role as a rooster, but focuses on another aspect of roosterness; i.e. being masculine: "I'll be a rooster crowing in the hen coop, but you'll be a hen and I'll be bothering you" (lines 7-9).
2008, José Santaemilia, Patricia Bou, Gender and sexual identities in transition, page 124
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