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capon

capon

3 9.5
A male chicken made unable to breed and raised for its meat
  • noun
  • /ˈkeɪpən/
translation icon : capon
  • Only then did servants pass through the hall with dishes of pork, capon, beef, and venison pie.
  • roast capon
  • capon, beef, and venison
  • stuffed capon

Examples

  • I rub the mustard onto the capon's skin, with its largish pores and nipple-like bumps; the mustard's whole seeds.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The chef demonstrated how to properly carve the capon for serving.

  • I think I'll try a capon next!

    Blog text (5)

  • Actually, you can buy Capon at the grocery store.

    Blog text (31)

  • There was a terrific recipe for capon in the Times today.

    Neighbors (1981)

  • She's fixing a great capon.

    Neighbors (1981)

  • The capons and hens too old to lay landed on their table, fried, baked, boiled, stewed, roasted.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • For the holiday dinner, we decided to roast a capon instead of a turkey.

  • A traditional dish for festive occasions is a well-seasoned capon served with vegetables.

Synonyms

chicken
vscapon
586 1.0

Meat from a farm bird that people eat

is meat from a castrated male bird raised specifically for eating
poultry
vscapon
11 1.6

Meat from birds like chickens, ducks and turkeys used for food

is the meat of a castrated male bird, not any other bird species

How Big

capon
3 9.5
broiler
1 3.0
Rock Cornish
  • US
6.7
bantam
4 8.1

Surface Forms

capon singular
capons plural

Etymology

The word capon comes from an old French word chapon and from the Latin word caponem, and it was used for a rooster castrated to make it fat and tender. So a capon today is a male chicken castrated and raised for eating.