fowl
[ foul ]
/ faʊl /
noun, plural fowls, (especially collectively) fowl.
the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken.
Compare domestic fowl.
any of several other, usually gallinaceous, birds that are barnyard, domesticated, or wild, as the duck, turkey, or pheasant.
(in market and household use) a full-grown domestic fowl for food purposes, as distinguished from a chicken or young fowl.
the flesh or meat of a domestic fowl.
any bird (used chiefly in combination): waterfowl; wildfowl.
verb (used without object)
to hunt or take wildfowl.
Origin of fowl
before 900; Middle English
foul, Old English
fugol, fugel; cognate with Old Saxon
fugal, Gothic
fugls, Old High German
fogal (German
Vogel)
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH fowl
foul fowlWords nearby fowl
foveation,
foveola,
foveolate,
foveole,
fowey,
fowl,
fowl cholera,
fowl mite,
fowl paralysis,
fowl pest,
fowl pox
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British Dictionary definitions for fowl
fowl
/ (faʊl) /
noun
See domestic fowl
any other bird, esp any gallinaceous bird, that is used as food or hunted as game
See also waterfowl, wildfowl
the flesh or meat of fowl, esp of chicken
an archaic word for any bird
verb
(intr)
to hunt or snare wildfowl
Word Origin for fowl
Old English
fugol; related to Old Frisian
fugel, Old Norse
fogl, Gothic
fugls, Old High German
fogal
Idioms and Phrases with fowl
fowl
see neither fish nor fowl.