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fowl

[ foul ]

noun

plural fowls, (especially collectively) fowl.
  1. the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken ( def ). 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.



verb (used without object)

  1. to hunt or take wildfowl.

fowl

/ 蹿补蕣濒 /

noun

  1. any other bird, esp any gallinaceous bird, that is used as food or hunted as game See also waterfowl wildfowl
  2. the flesh or meat of fowl, esp of chicken
  3. an archaic word for any bird
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr to hunt or snare wildfowl
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of fowl1

First recorded before 900; Middle English foul, fuhel, Old English fugol, fugel; cognate with Old Saxon fugal, Gothic fugls, Old High German fogal ( German Vogel ), from Germanic fuglaz, a possible dissimilation of unattested fluglaz, from the same root as fly 2( def )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of fowl1

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

see neither fish nor fowl .
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Example Sentences

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Everyone everywhere 鈥 every culture in the world 鈥 loves perfectly seasoned, expertly cooked, just cool enough to pop in your mouth, audibly crunchy morsels of fried meat, fish, fowl or vegetables.

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Going back centuries, local Buganda cultural superstition also protected the elegant fowl, which was seen as a symbol of wealth, good fortune and longevity.

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Avian flu outbreaks date back centuries, when it was once known as "fowl plague," but this outbreak is unique.

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James showed the BBC the amulets, which were made of fowl feathers, animal skins and herbs, covered in leather and cloth.

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Whispers of a 鈥渇owl plague鈥 date back to the late 19th Century, while H5N1 specifically was first detected in 1996 in Chinese geese.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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