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fowl

UK/faʊl/ US/ˈfaʊ.əl/ uncommon archaic obsolete
noun (2) verb (2)

noun

1.
2.

the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food

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verb

1.
2.

hunt fowl in the forest

Origin

From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.

Phrases

  • Cochin fowl
  • Dorking fowl
  • fowl bluegrass
  • fowl grass
  • fowl meadow grass
  • fowl paralysis
  • fowl pest
  • frizzle fowl

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