# 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: /faʊl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: foul
* Rhymes: -aʊl
* Rhymes: -aʊəl

#### Noun

fowl (plural fowl or fowls)
* A bird.
** 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
* Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae.

##### Derived terms

* antifowl
* Cochin fowl
* Dorking fowl
* fowl bluegrass, fowl grass, fowl meadow grass (Poa palustris)
* fowlery
* fowl-house
* fowlhouse
* fowlish
* fowlkind
* fowllike
* fowl-like
* fowl-lore
* fowl paralysis
* fowl pest
* fowlpox
* fowl-run
* fowlyard
* game fowl
* gamefowl
* guinea-fowl
* guinea fowl
* helmeted guinea fowl
* junglefowl, jungle fowl (Gallus spp.)
* landfowl
* make fish of one and fowl of another
* mallee fowl
* moorfowl
* neither fish, flesh, nor fowl
* neither fish nor fowl
* peafowl
* Philippine fowl disease
* rockfowl
* scrubfowl
* seafowl
* Spanish fowl
* spurfowl
* waterfowl
* wildfowl
* wormfowl
* yardfowl

##### Descendants

* Krio: fɔl
* Sranan Tongo: fowru

##### Translations

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#### Verb

fowl (third-person singular simple present fowls, present participle fowling, simple past and past participle fowled)
* To hunt fowl.
    We took our guns and went fowling.

##### Derived terms

* fowler
* fowling

##### Translations
#### References

* ↑ C.T. Onions, ed., Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "fowl" (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996), 374.

### 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
### Noun

fowl (plural fowles)
* Alternative form of fowel
    And smale fowles maken melodye That slepen all the night with open ye - Chaucer, General Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll.9-10