Citations:roosterish

Adjective: "resembling or characteristic of a rooster"

 * 1988, Peter Straub, Koko, Anchor Books (2009), ISBN 9780307472205, page 62:
 * Jimmy Lah was pouring some soapy blender concoction for the bar's only customer besides himself, a fruitcake with a roosterish yellow Mohawk and oversized pink eyeglasses.
 * 2012, Mary Stewart Atwell, Wild Girls, Doubleday Canada (2012), ISBN 9780385677769, unnumbered page:
 * When Kayak Boy was mad he put his shoulders back and stuck his head forward, a roosterish stance that reminded me of Travis.
 * 2013, Jeannie Gray & Ian Fraser, Australian Bird Names: A Complete Guide, CSIRO Publishing (2013), ISBN 9780643104693, page 86:
 * Perhaps in reference to its spectacular, arguably roosterish, red comb-like frontal plate.

Adjective: "(figuratively) cocky, arrogant, prideful"

 * 1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 24:
 * "Poor boy," said Patience sympathetically, and Fisher eyed her with suddenly aroused manhood. "And that's all?"
 * His big shoulders drooped, and the roosterish look went out of his eyes.
 * 1955, Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar, Little, Brown and Company (2013), ISBN 9780316248549, unnumbered page:
 * and when it was over he would blink and smirk around at the ladies, with a roosterish pride quite engaging to behold.
 * 2007, Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls, Rome, Venice, Florence, Cadogan Guides (2007), ISBN 9781860113529, page 222:
 * His roosterish boastfulness and the conviction that his was the best of all possible artistic worlds, set next to his very modest talents, have made him a comic figure in most art criticism.
 * 2012, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Triurbia, HarperCollins (2012), ISBN 9780062132413, unnumbered page:
 * He is very handsome, though too roosterish for me, with his big yacht and yellow sports car and overenthusiastic swimming.