fowl
nounEtymology
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, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.
Definitions
A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called…
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.
Any bird.
To hunt fowl.
- We took our guns and went fowling.
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foul
The neighborhood
- synonymfowl
- synonymgamefowl
- synonympoultry
- synonymwildfowl
- neighbor:Category:Birds
- neighborvertebrate
- neighboranimal
- neighborbird
- neighborLarger groups
- neighborduck
- neighbormegapode
- neighbormoundbuilder
- neighborwaterfowl
- neighborSmaller groups
- neighborargus
- neighborbobwhite
Derived
antifowl, Cochin fowl, Dorking fowl, fowl bluegrass, fowl grass, fowl meadow grass, fowlery, fowl-house, fowlhouse, fowlish, fowlkind, fowllike, fowl-like, fowl-lore, fowl paralysis, fowl pest, fowlpox, fowl-run, fowlyard, frizzle fowl, gamefowl, game fowl, guinea-fowl, guinea fowl, helmeted guinea fowl, junglefowl, jungle fowl, 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 · +4 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at fowl. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at fowl. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at fowl
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA