fowl

== English == === Etymology 1 === 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 and Norwegian fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly. ==== Pronunciation ==== enPR: foul, IPA(key): /faʊl/ Homophone: foul Rhymes: -aʊl Rhymes: -aʊəl ==== Noun ==== fowl (plural fowl or fowls) A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae. (archaic) Any bird. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Krio: fɔl Sranan Tongo: fowru ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== fowl (third-person singular simple present fowls, present participle fowling, simple past and past participle fowled) To hunt fowl. ===== Derived terms ===== fowler fowling ===== Translations ===== ==== References ==== === Etymology 2 === ==== Adjective ==== fowl (comparative fowler, superlative fowlest) (obsolete) foul Paradise Lost, John Milton Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view / Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State / Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off / From their Creator, and transgress his Will / For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? / Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt? ==== References ==== “fowl”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fowl”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === Wolf, flow, wolf == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== fowl alternative form of foul (“bird”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Adjective ==== fowl (Late Middle English) alternative form of foul (“foul”)