fowl
the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken. : Compare domestic fowl.
any of several other, usually gallinaceous, birds that are barnyard, domesticated, or wild, as the duck, turkey, or pheasant.
(in market and household use) a full-grown domestic fowl for food purposes, as distinguished from a chicken or young fowl.
the flesh or meat of a domestic fowl.
any bird (used chiefly in combination): waterfowl; wildfowl.
to hunt or take wildfowl.
Origin of fowl
1Words that may be confused with fowl
- foul, fowl
Words Nearby fowl
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How to use fowl in a sentence
The name of the restaurant demands she offer duck and peaches, and the combination of crisp-skinned fowl and juicy fruit is simple and satisfying.
Mid-Atlantic dishes, from fish to fowl, play large on the menu.
Healthy birds housed within view of fellow fowl infected with a common pathogen mounted an immune response, despite not being infected themselves, researchers report online June 9 in Biology Letters.
The mere sight of illness may kick-start a canary’s immune system | Jonathan Lambert | June 8, 2021 | Science NewsShe was born to be a helpmeet, to supply what the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air could not, in sorrow and pain.
You’d know what time of year it is simply by the chef’s choice of meat and fowl.
A reopened Marcel’s reminds me that fine dining, especially now, is about more than food | Tom Sietsema | November 6, 2020 | Washington Post
It is a multimillion-dollar business in which roughly 15 million fowl die a year.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity | William O’Connor | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt all began, the consensus seems to be, with the red jungle fowl.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity | William O’Connor | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLike all fowl, turkeys tend to go quiet when held upside down.
They had planned dinners together every night and ate guinea fowl, duck and other “interesting” dishes.
Jeff Goldblum Says Justin Bieber Should Play Him in ‘Jurassic Park’ Reboot | Melissa Leon | March 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut it was her light dinner—typically a broth with vegetables and either chicken or guinea fowl—that Wheeler saw as key.
He stirred the smoldering ashes till the broiled fowl began to sizzle afresh.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinWater-fowl that had not moved at the first alarm now sprang in myriads from reeds and sedges, and darkened the very air.
Hunting the Lions | R.M. BallantyneChloride of Lime … bad smell … bad egg … white of egg … fowl … grain … flour … flour and water … milk fluid … milk.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)The Chinese esteem it as a great delicacy and mix it with fowl and vegetables.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
British Dictionary definitions for fowl
/ (faʊl) /
(intr) to hunt or snare wildfowl
Origin of fowl
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Other Idioms and Phrases with fowl
see neither fish nor fowl.
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