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chanticleer|ˈtʃɑːntɪklɪə(r), ˈtʃæ-|
Forms: 3–5 chauntecler, 4–6 chaunticlere, 5 chantecleer, 6 chauntecleere, 7 chaunticleere, -cleare, (chant-it-clear), chante-, chanticle(e)re, -icler, 8– chanticleer.
[a. OF. chantecler (mod.F. chanteclair), proper name of the Cock in Reynard the Fox, f. chante-r to sing, crow + cler (mod.F. clair) clear.]
An appellation applied to a cock, usually in manner of a proper name; but now mostly written without a capital. (Cf. Bruin, Grimalkin, Reynard, etc.)
a1300Vox & Wolf 37 Be stille, ich hote, a Godes nome! Quath the vox, Sire chauntecler. c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 29 Sche had a cok, hight Chaunticlere. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 9 So sawe they comen doun the hylle to hem chauntecler the cock. 1596Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 1 Chearefull Chaunticlere with his note shrill. 1598Marston Pygmal. v. 160 Poore Gallus now..Is turned to a crowing Chauntecleere. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 30 My Lungs began to crow like Chanticleere [cf. Temp. i. ii. 385]. 1621Quarles Esther (1638) 94 When Chanticleere, (the Bellman of the morne) Shall summon twilight with his bugle horne. 1633B. Jonson T. Tub iii. v, Brave chant-it-clear, his noble heart was done. c1820S. Rogers Italy, Lake Geneva (1839) 176 Many a chanticleer and partlet. 1858Longfellow Birds of Pass., Day break vi, O chanticleer, Your clarion blow.
Hence ˈchanticleer v. nonce-wd., to crow as a cock; ˈchanticleering ppl. a.
1841Fraser's Mag. XXIV. 713 The courageous bird..chanticleered away louder than ever. 1856Strang Glasgow 515 Voices as cheerful and chanticleering as the Cock. |