>>63926784>>63926723>>63926676AFAIK it just morphed into this. For example there is the term "petoosheet" (пeтyшить), which means basically "(to) petookh (someone)". I'm pretty sure that sometime back in the day (like 150+ years ago if not more) the term actually meant "topping" someone, since that's actually what a rooster does in a hen house, both literally and figuratively. But at some point it did a switcheroo and things got flipped. In later and modern days there's a ton of reasons why "rooster" is used to mean a faggot:
- rooster is a symbol of being "other", i.e. a rooster is always a bright, noisy, noticeable character. In prison, this is transferred to a negative meaning: a person who was "singled out" from the group, marked as special (but in a bad sense);
- emphasis on loudness and "singing" qualities, i.e. rooster is associated with someone who "screams" (sings). In the criminal language "to sing" means to inform on, to hand over someone, and although this is not a direct reason why someone is lowered, the background of the association is present;