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Fowl Definition

fowl

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English

Guinea fowl.

Etymology

From Old English fugol, from Proto-Germanic. Cognate with Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel. Probably related ultimately to fly.

Pronunciation

Noun

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Wikipedia fowl (plural fowls or fowl)

  1. (archaic) A bird.
  2. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
  3. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans.

Verb

to fowl (third-person singular simple present fowls, present participle fowling, simple past and past participle fowled)

  1. To hunt fowl.

Anagrams

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English fugol, from Proto-Germanic.

Noun

fowl (plural fowles)

  1. a bird
And smale fowles maken melodye That slepen all the night with open ye - Chaucer, General Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll.9-10

 

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