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roost
[ roost ]
noun
- a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- a large cage, house, or place for fowls or birds to roost in.
- a place for sitting, resting, or lodging.
verb (used without object)
- to sit or rest on a roost, perch, etc.
- to settle or stay, especially for the night.
roost
1/ ː /
noun
- a place, perch, branch, etc, where birds, esp domestic fowl, rest or sleep
- a temporary place to rest or stay
- rule the roostSee rule
verb
- intr to rest or sleep on a roost
- intr to settle down or stay
- come home to roostto have unfavourable repercussions
Roost
2/ ː /
noun
- the Roosta powerful current caused by conflicting tides around the Shetland and Orkney Islands
Other yvlog Forms
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yvlog History and Origins
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of roost1
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Idioms and Phrases
- come home to roost, (of an action) to revert or react unfavorably to the doer; boomerang:
an evil deed that came home to roost and ruined his life.
- rule the roost, to be in charge or control; dominate:
It was only too apparent that his grandfather ruled the roost.
More idioms and phrases containing roost
see chickens come home to roost ; rule the roost .Example Sentences
Expect to see and hear more chickens roosting in the next four years.
She said the dominate theory behind murmurations is for the birds to avoid predators as they come to roost with "safety in numbers" by joining up in tight knit groups.
Learning about the Fosters’ roost, dozens of people have asked them to go to their houses to retrieve necessities.
California wildlife officials last year confirmed the presence of the fungus in a bat roost in Humboldt County, which sits on the northern coast.
The commission rejected a similar bid for protections roughly 20 years ago, and since then the situation has become more dire for the bird — the only owl species to nest and roost in underground burrows.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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