wildfowl

English

Etymology

wild +‎ fowl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪldfaʊl/

Noun

wildfowl (plural wildfowls or wildfowl)

1. Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.
   • 1785, William Cowper, The Task: A Poem in Six Books, London: J. Johnson, Book 4, p. 168,^[1]

     […] Whoso seeks an audit here

     Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish,

     Wildfowl or ven’son, and his errand speeds.

   • 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Wartburg, Chapter 3, p. 81,

     In these early days of the journey we eat well. We have brought salted meat, flour, beans, dried fruit, and there are wildfowl to shoot.

2. Waterfowl.

Translations

wild bird

• Dutch: wild gevogelte
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waterfowl

• Finnish: vesilintu (fi)
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• Ukrainian: водоплавні птахи m pl (vodoplavni ptaxy)

Verb

wildfowl (third-person singular simple present wildfowls, present participle wildfowling, simple past and past participle wildfowled)

1. To hunt wildfowl.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 220b.

     The hunting of the kind of winged creatures, taken as a whole, is called wildfowling.

Derived terms

• wildfowler
• wildfowling

Translations

to hunt a wildfowl

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