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 fowl

Example sentences from the Web for fowl

British Dictionary definitions for fowl

fowl
/ (faʊl) /

noun

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.