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Definitions for Fowl

[1] the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken. Compare domestic fowl.
[2] any of several other, usually gallinaceous, birds that are barnyard, domesticated, or wild, as the duck, turkey, or pheasant.
[3] (in market and household use) a full-grown domestic fowl for food purposes, as distinguished from a chicken or young fowl.
[4] the flesh or meat of a domestic fowl.
[5] any bird (used chiefly in combination): waterfowl; wildfowl.
[6] to hunt or take wildfowl.
[7] See domestic fowl
[8] any other bird, esp any gallinaceous bird, that is used as food or hunted as game See also waterfowl, wildfowl
[9] the flesh or meat of fowl, esp of chicken
[10] an archaic word for any bird
[11] (intr) to hunt or snare wildfowl

Words related to Fowl

chicken, goose, pheasant, hen, turkey, game, duck, chick, cock, bird, capon, rooster

Words nearby Fowl

foveation, foveola, foveolate, foveole, fowey, fowl, fowl cholera, fowl mite, fowl paralysis, fowl pest, fowl pox

Origin of Fowl

before 900; Middle English foul, Old English fugol, fugel; cognate with Old Saxon fugal, Gothic fugls, Old High German fogal (German Vogel )

Words that may be confused with Fowl

foul, fowl

Word origin for Fowl

Old English fugol ; related to Old Frisian fugel , Old Norse fogl , Gothic fugls , Old High German fogal

Synonyms for Fowl

chicken, goose, hen, pheasant, bird, capon, chick, cock, duck, game, rooster, turkey