Fowl Definition

foul
fowls
noun
fowls
Any of various birds of the order Galliformes, especially the common, widely domesticated chicken (Gallus domesticus).
American Heritage Medicine
Any of various domestic birds used as food.
Webster's New World
Any bird.
Wildfowl.
Webster's New World
The flesh of any of these birds used for food.
Webster's New World
verb
fowls
To catch, trap, hunt, or shoot wild birds for food or sport.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Fowl

Noun

Singular:
fowl
Plural:
fowls

Origin of Fowl

  • From Middle English foul, foghel, from Old English fugol, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘fowls of the air’), from *fleuganą ‘to fly’. Compare West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Danish fugl. More at fly.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English foul from Old English fugol pleu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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