Chanʹticleer
. The cock, in the tale of Reynard the Fox, and in Chaucer’s Nonne Prestes Tale. The word means “shrill-singer.” (French chanter-clair, to sing clairment, i.e. distinctly.)
“My lungs began to crow like chanticleer.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.