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# A [[young]] [[hen]], especially one less than a [[year]] old. {{defdate|from 14th c.}} |
# A [[young]] [[hen]], especially one less than a [[year]] old. {{defdate|from 14th c.}} - see [[pullus]] |
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#* '''1646''', {{w|Thomas Browne}}, ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'', I.11: |
#* '''1646''', {{w|Thomas Browne}}, ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'', I.11: |
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#*: They died not because the '''Pullets''' would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them. |
#*: They died not because the '''Pullets''' would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them. |
Revision as of 12:43, 31 March 2020
English
Etymology
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From Middle English polet, pulet, from Anglo-Norman pullet, Old French poulet (“young chicken”); polette (“young hen”), from poule (“hen”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ʊlɪt
Noun
pullet (plural pullets)
- A young hen, especially one less than a year old. [from 14th c.] - see pullus
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.11:
- They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 588:
- The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 187:
- he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
- 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 195:
- The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.11:
- (slang) A spineless person; a coward.
Related terms
Translations
young hen
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spineless person — see chicken
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