foule

See also: foulé

English

Adjective

foule (comparative more foule, superlative most foule)

1. Obsolete form of foul.
   • 1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I:

     The Patron of true Holinesse
      foule Errour doth defeate;
     Hypocrisie him to entrappe
      doth to his home entreate.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ful/

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• Rhymes: -ul
• Homophones: foulent, foules

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French foule (“group of men, people collectively”), alteration (due to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French foule (“act of treading”)) of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with Old High German folc (“people collectively, nation”), Old English folc (“common people, troop, multitude”). More at folk.

Noun

foule f (plural foules)

1. crowd
2. the thronging of a crowd
3. a great number, multitude, mass; host

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French foule (“the act of milling clothes or hats”) and fouler (“to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French foler (“to crush, act wickedly”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fullō (“I trample, I full”). More at full.

Noun

foule f (plural foules)

1. the act or process of treading or milling
2. oppression, vexation

Verb

foule

1. first-person singular present indicative of fouler
2. third-person singular present indicative of fouler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fouler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fouler
5. second-person singular imperative of fouler

Anagrams

• floue

Further reading

• “foule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Verb

foule

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of foulen.
2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of foulen.
3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of foulen.
4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of foulen.

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Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *pelə- (“to fill”).

Noun

foule f (plural foules)

1. (Jersey) crowd

Synonyms

• fliotchet