fowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: foul
ipa: /faʊl/
homophone: foul
rhymes: -aʊl
rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: fowl
form: fowls
Etymology: 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.
Senses: glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:
english: And now I take upon myself the adventures of holy things / And now I see and understand that my old sin hinders me and shames me / so that I had no power to steer nor speak when the holy blood appeared afore me / So thus he sorrowed till it was day / and heard the fowls sing / then somewhat he was comforted
translation: And now I take upon myself the adventures of holy things / And now I see and understand that my old sin hinders me and shames me / so that I had no power to steer nor speak when the holy blood appeared afore me / So thus he sorrowed till it was day / and heard the fowls sing / then somewhat he was comforted
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glosses: Any bird.
Synonyms: word: fowl
word: gamefowl
word: poultry
word: wildfowl
Hypernyms: word: vertebrate
word: animal
word: bird
Hyponyms: word: Larger groups
word: duck
word: megapode
word: moundbuilder
word: waterfowl
word: Smaller groups
word: argus
word: bobwhite
word: brant
word: brush-turkey
word: chachalaca
word: chicken
word: curassow
word: eider
word: francolin
word: gallopheasant
word: goldeneye
word: goose
word: guan
word: guineafowl
word: junglefowl
word: merganser
word: monal
word: partridge
word: peafowl
word: pheasant
word: pintail
word: pochard
word: quail
word: scaup
word: scoter
word: screamer
word: scrubfowl
word: shelduck
word: shelgoose
word: shoveler
word: snowcock
word: spurfowl
word: swan
word: teal
word: tragopan
word: turkey
word: wigeon
word: bamboo-partridge
word: hill-partridge
word: magpie-goose
word: piping-guan
word: tree-quail
word: wood-partridge
word: wood-quail
word: Single species
word: canvasback
word: chukar
word: dabchick
word: gadwall
word: garganey
word: hardhead
word: maleo
word: mallard
word: malleefowl
word: redhead
word: smew
word: spotbill
word: rosybill
Meronyms: word: See Thesaurus:bird
Derived terms: word: antifowl
word: Cochin fowl
word: Dorking fowl
word: fowl bluegrass
word: fowl grass
taxonomic: Poa palustris
word: fowl meadow grass
word: fowlery
word: fowl-house
word: fowlhouse
word: fowlish
word: fowlkind
word: fowllike
word: fowl-like
word: fowl-lore
word: fowl paralysis
word: fowl pest
word: fowlpox
word: fowl-run
word: fowlyard
word: game fowl
word: gamefowl
word: guinea-fowl
word: guinea fowl
word: helmeted guinea fowl
word: junglefowl
taxonomic: Gallus spp.
word: jungle fowl
word: landfowl
word: make fish of one and fowl of another
word: mallee fowl
word: moorfowl
word: neither fish, flesh, nor fowl
word: neither fish nor fowl
word: peafowl
word: Philippine fowl disease
word: rockfowl
word: scrubfowl
word: seafowl
word: Spanish fowl
word: spurfowl
word: waterfowl
word: wildfowl
word: wormfowl
word: yardfowl
Related terms: word: :Category:Birds