fowl
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3.2
- noun
- /faʊl/
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- We live on fowl, salted or smoked.
There was, you know, some suggestion there were oysters there and, and corn and maybe some fowl, but they don't say exactly what kind of fowl.
- There was, you know, some suggestion there were oysters there and, and corn and maybe some fowl, but they don't say exactly what kind of fowl.
- Meat, fish, fowl, eggs, nut seeds, vegetables, some fruit, some starchy tubers.
Examples
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What became tradition for my generation had once been a way of life, and for the very best hunters, it was a livelihood, supplying the markets of Savannah with fresh fowl.
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This is where we will procure our great fowl and devour it.
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And when there was no meat, we ate fowl.
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- Keith, are you sure you got a boiling fowl?
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A few people still swam in the pool, but most were out, mostly dressed, and the smell of roasting fowl filled the air.
Fiction book (1996) -
Baldridge helped the marauders purchase ample supplies of cattle and fowl from the indigenous population.
Academic text (2005) -
Meat, fish, fowl, eggs, nut seeds, vegetables, some fruit, some starchy tubers.
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Preferably, fowl is boiled, cooked, broiled, or roasted, but in no way fried.
Blog text (26) -
A dozen glasses clinked over the remains—dismembered fowl and goat with spices and gristle still clinging to the bones.
Fiction book (2000) -
When preparing dinner, I decided to roast a whole fowl with herbs and vegetables.
Synonyms
586
1.0
Meat from a farm bird that people eat
100
1.0
Meat from animals like chicken or duck that people eat
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1.6
Meat from birds like chickens, ducks and turkeys used for food
Idioms
- Informal
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8.1
Not clearly one thing or another so people cannot decide what it is
Compounds
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6.5
A farm bird from Africa with dark feathers and white spots, raised for meat and eggs
- Indian
1
7.9
A small wild bird from South and Southeast Asia that became the domestic chicken
- Specialized
A contagious bacterial disease of birds, especially chickens, that causes sudden sickness and often death
- Archaic
A serious viral disease in chickens and farm birds that causes high fever, loss of appetite, and a dark comb
- Australian
A large Australian ground bird that builds big sand mounds to keep its eggs warm
- US
A brown and spotted North American bird that lives in prairie grasslands, like the prairie chicken
- Australian
A large ground bird that builds a warm mound of rotting plants to hatch its eggs
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word fowl comes from an old English word fugol that meant 'bird'. So fowl can mean the meat of a bird, like chicken or duck, because people used the same word for the animal and its food.