pullet
noun/ˈpʊlɪt/UK
Etymology
From Middle English polet, pulet, from Anglo-Norman pullet, Old French poulet (“young chicken”); polette (“young hen”), from poule (“hen”), from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus. Doublet of poult. Compare also Middle English pulle. By surface analysis, pull(us) + -et.
Definitions
A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
- They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
- The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.
- he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
A spineless person
A spineless person; a coward.
A girl or young woman.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pullet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA