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fowl
[ foul ]
noun
- the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken ( def ). 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.
verb (used without object)
- to hunt or take wildfowl.
fowl
/ faʊl /
verb
- intr to hunt or snare wildfowl
Word History and Origins
Origin of fowl1
Word History and Origins
Origin of fowl1
Idioms and Phrases
see neither fish nor fowl .Example Sentences
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.
She 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.
It is a multimillion-dollar business in which roughly 15 million fowl die a year.
It all began, the consensus seems to be, with the red jungle fowl.
Like 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.
But 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.
Water-fowl that had not moved at the first alarm now sprang in myriads from reeds and sedges, and darkened the very air.
Chloride of Lime … bad smell … bad egg … white of egg … fowl … grain … flour … flour and water … milk fluid … milk.
The Chinese esteem it as a great delicacy and mix it with fowl and vegetables.
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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