fowl

Speech parts

1. fowl - Noun

2. fowl - Adjective

3. fowl - Verb

Meaning

Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.

Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).

To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bird poultry domestic fowl partridge pigeon biddy siskin duck turkey quail snipe capon sandpiper aves butterball
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Antonyms

lord colleen man ace kid minor
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Hypernyms

run meat hunt gallinacean track down hunt down

Hyponyms

bantam cornish guinea duck turkey chicken

Phrases with the word

neither fish nor fowl barn-door fowl barnyard fowl disease of domestic fowl fowl plague noninfected domestic fowl

Derivatives

fowls fowled fowling

Anagrams

flow wolf

Examples

The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico. Malcolm Lowry

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. William Cowper

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!" Diogenes of Sinope

The fowl digs out the blade that kills it. Somali Proverb

A fowl does not forget where it lays it eggs. Nigerian Proverb

The hungry fowl wakes early. Jamaican Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Fowers Fowey Fowkes fowl cholera fowl meadow grass fowl paralysis