Sometimes english is very confusing either American or british.
So the thing is that whats the diferrence between a COCK and ROOSTER?
I know hen is a female.
Again there childrens are CHICKEN or CHIKS?

Dnt post links, i know to brows web. Lol

Ok here is the definition cor cock clean
noun
noun: cock; plural noun: cocks
1.
a male bird, especially a rooster.
synonyms: rooster, cockerel, capon
"strutting around like a barnyard cock"
used in names of birds, especially game birds, e.g., moorcock.
suffix: -cock
BRITISH
a male lobster, crab, or salmon.
2.
vulgar slang
a penis.
3.
BRITISHinformal
nonsense.
"that's all a lot of cock"
4.
a firing lever in a gun which can be raised to be released by the trigger.
5.
a stopcock.
verb
verb: cock; 3rd person present: cocks; past tense: cocked; past participle: cocked; gerund or present participle: cocking
1.
tilt (something) in a particular direction.
"she cocked her head slightly to one side"
synonyms: tilt, tip, angle, incline, dip
"he cocked his head"
bend a (limb or joint) at an angle.
"she listened, her little finger cocked as she held her coffee cup"
synonyms: bend, flex, crook, curve
"she cocked her little finger"
(of a male dog) lift (a back leg) in order to urinate.
synonyms: lift, raise, hold up
"the dog cocked its leg"
2.
raise the cock of (a gun) in order to make it ready for firing.





Rooster

roost·er
ˈro͞ostər/Submit
nounNORTH AMERICAN
a male domestic fowl; a cock.



Easy peasy since you don't surf the web.

using it in different meaning is another thing, but the fact is that both are same, grown up MALE.

Nothing meaningful.

Like there's no difference between man and male and sometimes guy or dude.

Or dog and canine.

Or hippie and dirty hippie.

Or liar and politician.

Or kid and child and juvenile.

Or tornado and twister.

Or hot dog and frankfurter and wiener.

Or cat and feline and horrid-little-animal-spreading-toxoplasmosis.


A thesaurus isn't a fossilized skeleton in a museum.