fowl

fowl

a bird used for food or hunted as game; chicken, turkey, duck, pheasant

Not to be confused with:

foul – unfair; unclean; rotten; grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome: a foul smell; unfavorable: foul weather

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fowl

 (foul)

n. pl. fowl or fowls

1. Any of various birds of the order Galliformes, especially the common, widely domesticated chicken (Gallus domesticus).

2.

a. A bird, such as a duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant, that is used as food or hunted as game.

b. The flesh of such birds used as food.

3. A bird of any kind.

intr.v. fowled, fowl·ing, fowls

To hunt, trap, or shoot wildfowl.

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[Middle English foul, from Old English fugol; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]

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fowl′er n.

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fowl

(faʊl)

n

1. (Animals) See domestic fowl

2. (Animals) any other bird, esp any gallinaceous bird, that is used as food or hunted as game. See also waterfowl, wildfowl

3. (Cookery) the flesh or meat of fowl, esp of chicken

4. (Animals) an archaic word for any bird

vb

(Hunting) (intr) to hunt or snare wildfowl

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

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fowl

(faʊl)

n., pl. fowls, (esp. collectively) fowl,
n.

1. any domestic hen or rooster; chicken.

2. any of several other, usu. gallinaceous, birds, as turkeys or pheasants.

3. 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.

v.i.

6. to hunt or take wildfowl.

[before 900; Middle English foul, Old English fugol, fugel; c. Old Saxon fugal, Old High German fogal]

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fowl

(foul)

1. A bird, such as a chicken, duck, or dove, that is raised or hunted for food.

2. In scientific usage, any of various birds having large heavy bodies, short wings, and legs built for running and scratching the ground. Most fowl nest on the ground. The turkey, pheasant, quail, grouse, partridge, and chicken are fowl.

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fowl

, poultry - Chickens, ducks, geese, pheasants, and turkey are fowl in the wild and poultry if domesticated.

See also related terms for poultry.

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fowl

Past participle: fowled
Gerund: fowling

Imperative

fowl

fowl

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fowl - a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl domestic fowl, poultry gallinacean, gallinaceous bird - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds Dorking - an English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled) Plymouth Rock - an American breed of domestic fowl Cornish fowl, Cornish - English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters Rock Cornish - small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl game fowl - any of several breeds reared for cockfighting cochin, cochin china - Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs genus Gallus, Gallus - common domestic birds and related forms Gallus gallus, chicken - a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl bantam - any of various small breeds of fowl Meleagris gallopavo, turkey - large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food guinea fowl, Numida meleagris - a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world saddle - posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl poultry - flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
	2.	fowl - the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food bird bird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings wishbone, wishing bone - the furcula of a domestic fowl poultry - flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food wildfowl - flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food drumstick - the lower joint of the leg of a fowl second joint, thigh - the upper joint of the leg of a fowl wing - the wing of a fowl; "he preferred the drumsticks to the wings" giblet, giblets - edible viscera of a fowl oyster - a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl parson's nose, pope's nose - the tail of a dressed fowl meat - the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food dark meat - the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food
Verb	1.	fowl - hunt fowl hunt, hunt down, track down, run - pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"
	2.	fowl - hunt fowl in the forest grouse - hunt grouse hunt, hunt down, track down, run - pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"

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fowl

noun poultry Ducks and many other animals are fowl.

Related words
adjective gallinaceous
male cock
female hen

Types of fowl

American wigeon or baldpate, Ancona chicken, Andalusian chicken, Australorp chicken, bantam chicken, barnacle goose, Bewick's swan, black swan, blue duck, blue goose, Brahma chicken, brush turkey, bufflehead, Campine chicken, Canada goose, canvasback, Cochin chicken, cock or cockerel, Dorking chicken, duck, eider or eider duck, Faverolle chicken, gadwall, goldeneye, goosander, goose, greylag or greylag goose, Hamburg chicken, harlequin duck, hen, Houdan chicken, Leghorn chicken, magpie goose, mallard, mallee fowl or (Austral.) gnow, mandarin duck, marsh hen, megapode, merganser or sawbill, Minorca chicken, moorhen, Muscovy duck or musk duck, mute swan, nene, New Hampshire chicken, Orpington chicken, paradise duck, pintail, Plymouth Rock chicken, pochard, redhead, Rhode Island Red chicken, ruddy duck, scaup or scaup duck, screamer, sea duck, shelduck, shoveler, smew, snow goose, sultan, Sumatra chicken, Sussex chicken, swan, teal, trumpeter swan, turkey, velvet scoter, whistling swan, whooper or whooper swan, wigeon or widgeon, wood duck, Wyandotte chicken

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Translations

طَيْر، دجاجَه

drůbež

fjerkræ

GeflügelHuhnVogel

oiseau de basse-courvolaille

baromfimadárszárnyasvíziszárnyas

fugl

cacciagionegallinapollamepolloselvaggina

naminis paukštis

mājputns

gevogelte

fjærfehøne

dróbptactwo

дичьптица

kümes hayvanı

家禽

fowl

[faʊl]

A. N

1. (= hens etc) (collective n) → aves fpl de corral; (= one bird) → ave f de corral; (served as food) → ave f

2. (archaic) (= bird in general) → ave f
the fowls of the air → las aves

B. CPD fowl pest N → peste f aviar

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fowl

[ˈfaʊl] n (= birds) → volaille f

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fowl

n

(= poultry) → Geflügel nt; (= one bird) → Huhn nt → /Gans f → /Truthahn m → etc; to keep fowl → Hühner etc halten; roast fowl (Cook) → Brathuhn nt

the fowls of the air (liter) → die Vögel des Himmels

vi (also to go fowling) → auf Vogeljagd gehen

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fowl

[faʊl] n → pollame m, volatile m

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fowl

(faul) – plurals fowl ~fowls – noun

a bird, especially domestic, eg hens, ducks, geese etc. He keeps fowls and a few pigs. pluimvee طَيْر، دجاجَه птица ave drůbež das Geflügel fjerkræ πουλερικό ave de corral (kodu)lind پرنده؛ طیور kanalintu oiseau de basse-courעוף पालतू चिड़िया ptica, perad baromfi unggas (ali)fugl volatile 家禽 닭, (집오리, 칠면조 등의) 가금 naminis paukštis mājputns burung vogelfjærfe, hønedrób مرغان، طیور ave pasăre de curte домашняя птица hydina perutnina perad höns[fågel], fjäderfä สัตว์ปีกที่เลี้ยงไว้ใช้เป็นอาหารใครัวเรือน kümes hayvanı 家禽 птиця انڈے دینے والے پالتو پرندوں میں سے کوئی thịt gia cầm; gia súc 家禽

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