fowl
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’),[1] from *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish and Norwegian fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fowl (plural fowl or fowls)
- (archaic) A bird.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:
- And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted
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- A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
- Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
bird — see bird
bird of the order Galliformes
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birds which are hunted or kept for food
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Verb[edit]
fowl (third-person singular simple present fowls, present participle fowling, simple past and past participle fowled)
- To hunt fowl.
- We took our guns and went fowling.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to hunt fowl
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References[edit]
- ^ C.T. Onions, ed., Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "fowl" (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996), 374.
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
fowl (comparative fowler, superlative fowlest)
- (obsolete) foul
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view / Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State / Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off / From their Creator, and transgress his Will / For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? / Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt?
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
References[edit]
- fowl at OneLook Dictionary Search
- fowl in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
fowl (plural fowles)
- Alternative form of fowel
- And smale fowles maken melodye
That slepen all the night with open ye - Chaucer, General Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll.9-10
- And smale fowles maken melodye
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