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noun
1.
the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken. 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)
6.
to hunt or take wildfowl.
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Fowled
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Origin:
before 900; Middle English foul, Old English fugol, fugel; cognate with Old Saxon fugal, Gothic fugls, Old High German fogal (German Vogel)
before 900; Middle English foul, Old English fugol, fugel; cognate with Old Saxon fugal, Gothic fugls, Old High German fogal (German Vogel)
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fowl
O.E. fugel "bird," general Gmc. word (cf. Gothic fugls), from P.Gmc. *foglaz (cf. O.N. fugl, M.Du. voghel, Ger. vogel, Goth. fugls), probably by dissimilation from *flug-la-, lit. "flyer," from the same root as O.E. fleogan, modern fly (v.1). Originally "bird;" narrower sense
EXPANDof "domestic hen or rooster" (the main modern meaning) is first recorded 1580; in U.S. also extended to ducks and geese.
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