Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
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Roost
//ɹust//
Synonyms for "roost" (94 found)
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7 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πέτευρον noun (place for sleeping birds)
Bikol Central
1 entries- tugdunan noun (place for sleeping birds)
Catalan
2 entries- jóc noun (place for sleeping birds)
- ajocar-se verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
Czech
3 entries- hřad noun (place for sleeping birds)
- kurník noun (place for sleeping birds)
- hřadovat verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
Estonian
1 entries- tana noun (place for sleeping birds)
Finnish
2 entries- nukkumapaikka noun (place for sleeping birds)
- nukkua verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
Galician
2 entries- poleiro noun (place for sleeping birds)
- apoleirar verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
German
4 entries- Nest noun (place for sleeping birds)
- auf einem Ast schlafen verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
- auf einer Stange schlafen verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
- übernachten verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
Irish
1 entries- fara noun (place for sleeping birds)
Italian
2 entries- pollaio noun (place for sleeping birds)
- appollaiarsi verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
Japanese
2 entries- 塒 noun (place for sleeping birds)
- 就塒する verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- vēutīng noun (place for sleeping birds)
Latvian
1 entries- lakta noun (place for sleeping birds)
Macedonian
1 entries- се́дело noun (place for sleeping birds)
Māori
1 entries- tūhunga noun (place for sleeping birds)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- تونك noun (place for sleeping birds)
- تونكلمك verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
- تونهمك verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
Polish
1 entries- grzęda noun (place for sleeping birds)
Portuguese
1 entries- poleiro noun (place for sleeping birds)
Russian
1 entries- насе́ст noun (place for sleeping birds)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- spiris noun (place for sleeping birds)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kokošinjac noun (place for sleeping birds)
- кокошињац noun (place for sleeping birds)
Spanish
2 entries- gallinero noun (place for sleeping birds)
- pajarera noun (place for sleeping birds)
Turkish
3 entries- yuva noun (place for sleeping birds)
- tüneklemek verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
- tünemek verb (settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сі́дало noun (place for sleeping birds)
Walloon
2 entries- djocoe noun (place for sleeping birds)
- djoke noun (place for sleeping birds)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
At home it is Liisa who rules the roost.
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I'm thinking of burning your roost.
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The chickens have come home to roost.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.