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nature's alarm clock that no one set, can't snooze, and refuses to refund
means The crowing of a rooster, especially the loud, repeated cry made at or around dawn that signals daybreak.
from "Rooster" is an American softening of the older English "cock," which became blunt in polite company; "roost" means a bird's perch, so a rooster is literally "the one who roosts." "Call" comes from Old Norse "kalla," to cry out or summon — a cousin of words across the Germanic family. Together: the perching bird's summons, a phrase as plain as the farmyard it rose from.
- not dawn-only
- roosters crow all day, dawn just gets credit
- internal clock
- they crow on schedule even in total darkness
- volume
- reaches 130 decibels, like a jet at takeoff
- built-in earplugs
- head tilt closes their ear canal mid-crow
- pecking order
- top rooster crows first, others wait their turn
chanticleer — the rooster in chaucer's canterbury tales (14th century), famous for his predictable crow
foghorn leghorn — looney tunes character, a large rooster known for his loud, exaggerated southern accent calls