Definition of fowl in English:

fowl

nounPlural fowls faʊlfaʊl

1A gallinaceous bird kept for its eggs and flesh; a domestic cock or hen.
饲养鸡
The domestic fowl is derived from the wild red junglefowl of SE Asia (see junglefowl)
Example sentencesExamples
- An old woman churns butter, while a woman in the foreground prepares a fowl for roasting and a third man spits a chicken at the far right.
- The behavioral sequence leading to a copulation has been extensively described in the domestic fowl.
- One of the most distinctive expressions in the chicken lexicon occurs when my fowls spot a bird of prey.
- The lecturer, in a most interesting and instructive address, dwelt chiefly on the principal characteristics of the three classes of fowls, the non-sitting or table fowl, the layer, and the general-purpose fowl.
- A L Basham lists India's contribution to World: rice, cotton, sugar cane, many spices, domestic fowl, game of chess etc.
- Although this assumption has not been rigorously tested in wild bird populations, data from domestic fowl suggest that, indeed, immunocompetence measurements might not be antigen specific.
- These birds also express high levels of a bacteriolytic lysozyme which is more similar in amino acid sequence to the rock pigeon than that of the domestic fowl.
- The domestic fowl is descended from the red junglefowl of south-east Asia and has been domesticated for 6 000 to 8 000 years.
- If ‘free-range’ is best, Joyce's were the most free-range fowls in creation; they were everywhere, and sociable, too, not at all averse to hopping up on a kitchen chair beside you while you had a cup of tea.
- Gallinaceous is an adjective describing birds of the order Gallinae, which includes common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, and quails.
- Above my head in the argusia bush a red-footed booby chick, the size of a domestic fowl, peers down at me.
- Birds affected by this disease are fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such as ostriches, emus and rhea.
- An experimental study in the domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus) found that paternity success varied across females, which were inseminated with equal numbers of sperm from two males.
- It is a good practice to put a burlap cloth, cheese cloth or paper towels over the litter for the first week so the young fowl can learn to distinguish the food from the litter.
- A typical recipe is in Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery: A very thick crust enclosed a turkey, which was stuffed with a goose, the goose with a fowl, then a partridge, then a pigeon.
- I thought the accompaniments would overshadow the fowl, but the chicken taste actually crept through to add a complex layer to the international tapestry of flavours.
- I have been known to be more of an owl than a fowl because I have late nights and struggle with early mornings.
- Breeds of domestic fowl are described under hen/chicken breeds.
- Immediately behind this is the kitchen garden, with still-existing hutches for rabbits, fowls and pigeons.
- In March it banned trade in chicken from West Java and South Sulawesi provinces after bird flu killed thousands of fowls there.
Synonyms
poultry
1. 1.1 Any other domesticated bird kept for its eggs or flesh, e.g. a turkey or goose.
  家禽
  Example sentencesExamples
  Wild birds may carry these infections, but they typically prove most harmful to domestic fowl like chickens, ducks, and turkeys.
  About 1530, a new dish began to be put on English tables, a fowl a little larger than the traditional goose, but with a lot more meat and a refreshingly new taste.
  Eggs from chickens, ducks and geese would also have been eaten although the fowl of the period would not have laid as often as their modern counterparts.
  In addition, my family included nine dogs, about 40 ducks and domestic fowls, eight geese, a Bornean deer that weighed about 150 pounds, and two long-armed apes.
  This combination was a new one on me: it has always been citrus that chefs pair with duck, the fatty fowl undercut by the tartness of the fruit.
  The government destroyed almost 1.4 million chickens, ducks, geese and other fowl in the territory last month to stop the spread of an avian influenza.
  Most of these cases were thefts of livestock: primarily sheep, but also goats, cattle, hogs, fowls, and horses.
  In one large enterprise about two years ago they started breeding fowl - chicken and geese.
  Giblets are the edible internal parts of a fowl, including the gizzard, heart, liver, and neck.
  The focus will be on five categories of agricultural products: vegetables, fruit, milk, domestic animals and fowl, and aquatic products.
  However, sales don't drop completely as turkeys aren't the only fowl to be eaten over Christmas.
  New ways were found to supply goods formerly thought to be quasi-luxury items - notably chickens and turkeys by way of the new broiler fowl industry.
  I understand, and have seen at first hand on several occasions what a fox can do to a flock of chickens, or other domestic fowl.
  Synonyms
  poultry
2. 1.2mass noun The flesh of domesticated birds as food; poultry.
  a stew of various meats and fowl
  Example sentencesExamples
  There was other meat galore, too, steak, pork, fowl, bacon, etc.
  Even the soup of the day is an intentional creation, using freshly prepared vegetables and stock with fresh meat, fowl, or fish added.
  Each dish had its own plate: round, square, triangular or oval, depending, as far as I could surmise, on whether it was fish, meat or fowl.
  This is usually combined with fish, fowl, or red meat and copious spices to form a type of stew.
  The flavor and acidity would match up well with shellfish and grilled fowl.
  Usually any meat, fowl, or seafood is curried, and frying is the typical method of cooking.
  It was here he discovered fresh seafood, superior salmon, wild game, and fowl, and Scandinavian butter - a dairy product containing more fat than most butters.
  The term ‘vegetarian’ has only been around for about 150 years but abstinence from flesh, fish and fowl is as old as man himself.
  The borders are now completely closed for beef, fowl and pork imports.
  Special meals usually include meat, fish, or fowl, along with one of a number of starchy foods, which vary by region.
  They may eat liberally from a list of ‘acceptable foods,’ which includes all types of fish, fowl, shellfish, meat, eggs, cheese, fats and oils, herbs, and some vegetables.
  If you like red meat better than fowl, eat it more often.
  The menu was meat-heavy: fowl, pheasant, tripe, pork, steak, lamb and duck, cooked in a variety of ways.
  All kosher-slaughtered animals undergo rigorous inspection, and meat and fowl must be thoroughly cleansed of blood.
  A quick jump in time and place to today reveals a general population who loves meat and fowl - as long as it is pre-packaged and no one has to think about how it got there.
  A traditional meal is a bowl of steamed rice eaten with a sauce containing bits of fish, fowl, or meat, eggs, vegetables, and spices such as onions, chilies, garlic, mint, ginger, or lemon grass.
  Before contact with the West, staple foods included yam, taro, banana, coconut, sugarcane, tropical nuts, greens, pigs, fowl, and seafood.
  Music runs from ethnic afro-beats to trendy lounge jazz; food is a multi-cultural fusion of fish, fowl and steak; and drinks and cigars come from all over the globe.
  Brining is generally used as a preservative for meat and fowl; here it's used as a flavor enhancer.
  The fish, fowl and meat chapters are full of simple dishes, fish with just herbs, olive oil and lemon in true Italian style.
3. 1.3 Used in names of birds that resemble the domestic fowl.
  用于与家禽相似鸟类名称
  spurfowl
  Example sentencesExamples
  Guinea fowl meat is white like chicken but its taste is more reminiscent of pheasant, without excessive gamey flavor.
  The mallee fowl are the largest mound builders in Australia.
  The most striking of the guinea fowl, it is taller than its relatives.
  Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
  Guinea fowls, though hardy by nature, are susceptible to bacterial, round worm and ranikhet infections.
4. 1.4 Birds collectively, especially as the quarry of hunters.
  总称飞禽（尤指捕猎对象）
  an abundance of game, fowl, and fish
  Example sentencesExamples
  These would eventually have flourished, destroying the local housing and creating a forest teeming with fish, fowl, and game.
5. 1.5archaic A bird.
  〈古〉鸟
  Example sentencesExamples
  The birds we have had have been the ordinary fowl of a village garden: jackdaws, starlings, magpies, chaffinches and so on.

Origin

Old English fugol 'bird', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vogel and German Vogel, also to fly¹.

bird from Old English:
The origin of bird is unknown, and there are no parallel forms in any of the languages related to English. Old English brid (with the r before the i) meant only a chick or a nestling: an adult bird was a fowl. The form brid existed alongside bird in the literary language into the 15th century, but after that it survived only in dialect. Meanwhile fowl stopped being a general term, and it now refers only to specialized groups such as wildfowl and waterfowl. The first record of the proverb a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush comes in the mid 15th century. In birds of a feather flock together, first recorded a century later, the word ‘a’ means ‘one’ or ‘the same’.
The British slang use of bird to mean a young woman is associated with the 1960s and 1970s, but goes back as far as the Middle Ages. In those days there was another word bird, also spelled burd, that meant a young woman, which people confused with the familiar bird. The Virgin Mary could be described in those days as ‘that blissful bird of grace’. The modern use, recorded from the beginning of the 20th century, appears to be something of a revival.
The earliest version of the expression give someone the bird, meaning to boo or jeer at them, is the big bird, which was used by people working in the theatre in the early 19th century. The big bird referred to was a goose, a bird well known for its aggressive hissing when threatened or annoyed. The booing and hissing of the audience at an actor's poor performance might well have suggested a flock of angry geese.
Bird meaning ‘a prison sentence’ is a shortening of birdlime (see also viscous) used in rhyming slang to mean ‘time’. So if you were ‘doing bird’ or ‘doing birdlime’, you were ‘doing time’, a sense known from the mid 19th century.
In golf a birdie is a score of one stroke under par (see pair) at a hole. Two under par is an eagle, three under par is an albatross or double eagle, and one over par is a bogey (see bogus). This scoring terminology is said to have originated at the end of the 19th century when an American golfer hit a bird with his drive yet still managed to score one under par at the hole—this bird suggested birdie, and the other bird names were added to continue the theme.

Rhymes

afoul, befoul, cowl, foul, growl, howl, jowl, owl, prowl, Rabaul, scowl, yowl

Definition of fowl in US English:

fowl

nounfaʊlfoul

1A gallinaceous bird kept for its eggs and flesh; a rooster or hen.
饲养鸡
The domestic fowl is descended from the wild red junglefowl of Southeast Asia (see jungle fowl)
Example sentencesExamples
- Breeds of domestic fowl are described under hen/chicken breeds.
- These birds also express high levels of a bacteriolytic lysozyme which is more similar in amino acid sequence to the rock pigeon than that of the domestic fowl.
- The behavioral sequence leading to a copulation has been extensively described in the domestic fowl.
- The lecturer, in a most interesting and instructive address, dwelt chiefly on the principal characteristics of the three classes of fowls, the non-sitting or table fowl, the layer, and the general-purpose fowl.
- In March it banned trade in chicken from West Java and South Sulawesi provinces after bird flu killed thousands of fowls there.
- I have been known to be more of an owl than a fowl because I have late nights and struggle with early mornings.
- An old woman churns butter, while a woman in the foreground prepares a fowl for roasting and a third man spits a chicken at the far right.
- A L Basham lists India's contribution to World: rice, cotton, sugar cane, many spices, domestic fowl, game of chess etc.
- The domestic fowl is descended from the red junglefowl of south-east Asia and has been domesticated for 6 000 to 8 000 years.
- Above my head in the argusia bush a red-footed booby chick, the size of a domestic fowl, peers down at me.
- Gallinaceous is an adjective describing birds of the order Gallinae, which includes common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, and quails.
- If ‘free-range’ is best, Joyce's were the most free-range fowls in creation; they were everywhere, and sociable, too, not at all averse to hopping up on a kitchen chair beside you while you had a cup of tea.
- Although this assumption has not been rigorously tested in wild bird populations, data from domestic fowl suggest that, indeed, immunocompetence measurements might not be antigen specific.
- A typical recipe is in Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery: A very thick crust enclosed a turkey, which was stuffed with a goose, the goose with a fowl, then a partridge, then a pigeon.
- An experimental study in the domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus) found that paternity success varied across females, which were inseminated with equal numbers of sperm from two males.
- Birds affected by this disease are fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such as ostriches, emus and rhea.
- I thought the accompaniments would overshadow the fowl, but the chicken taste actually crept through to add a complex layer to the international tapestry of flavours.
- It is a good practice to put a burlap cloth, cheese cloth or paper towels over the litter for the first week so the young fowl can learn to distinguish the food from the litter.
- Immediately behind this is the kitchen garden, with still-existing hutches for rabbits, fowls and pigeons.
- One of the most distinctive expressions in the chicken lexicon occurs when my fowls spot a bird of prey.
Synonyms
poultry
1. 1.1 Any other domesticated bird kept for its eggs or flesh, e.g., the turkey, duck, goose, and guineafowl.
  家禽
  Example sentencesExamples
  The government destroyed almost 1.4 million chickens, ducks, geese and other fowl in the territory last month to stop the spread of an avian influenza.
  In one large enterprise about two years ago they started breeding fowl - chicken and geese.
  Wild birds may carry these infections, but they typically prove most harmful to domestic fowl like chickens, ducks, and turkeys.
  Eggs from chickens, ducks and geese would also have been eaten although the fowl of the period would not have laid as often as their modern counterparts.
  Giblets are the edible internal parts of a fowl, including the gizzard, heart, liver, and neck.
  In addition, my family included nine dogs, about 40 ducks and domestic fowls, eight geese, a Bornean deer that weighed about 150 pounds, and two long-armed apes.
  About 1530, a new dish began to be put on English tables, a fowl a little larger than the traditional goose, but with a lot more meat and a refreshingly new taste.
  This combination was a new one on me: it has always been citrus that chefs pair with duck, the fatty fowl undercut by the tartness of the fruit.
  The focus will be on five categories of agricultural products: vegetables, fruit, milk, domestic animals and fowl, and aquatic products.
  However, sales don't drop completely as turkeys aren't the only fowl to be eaten over Christmas.
  I understand, and have seen at first hand on several occasions what a fox can do to a flock of chickens, or other domestic fowl.
  New ways were found to supply goods formerly thought to be quasi-luxury items - notably chickens and turkeys by way of the new broiler fowl industry.
  Most of these cases were thefts of livestock: primarily sheep, but also goats, cattle, hogs, fowls, and horses.
  Synonyms
  poultry
2. 1.2 The flesh of domesticated birds as food; poultry.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The flavor and acidity would match up well with shellfish and grilled fowl.
  Each dish had its own plate: round, square, triangular or oval, depending, as far as I could surmise, on whether it was fish, meat or fowl.
  A quick jump in time and place to today reveals a general population who loves meat and fowl - as long as it is pre-packaged and no one has to think about how it got there.
  Even the soup of the day is an intentional creation, using freshly prepared vegetables and stock with fresh meat, fowl, or fish added.
  They may eat liberally from a list of ‘acceptable foods,’ which includes all types of fish, fowl, shellfish, meat, eggs, cheese, fats and oils, herbs, and some vegetables.
  The fish, fowl and meat chapters are full of simple dishes, fish with just herbs, olive oil and lemon in true Italian style.
  It was here he discovered fresh seafood, superior salmon, wild game, and fowl, and Scandinavian butter - a dairy product containing more fat than most butters.
  Before contact with the West, staple foods included yam, taro, banana, coconut, sugarcane, tropical nuts, greens, pigs, fowl, and seafood.
  Music runs from ethnic afro-beats to trendy lounge jazz; food is a multi-cultural fusion of fish, fowl and steak; and drinks and cigars come from all over the globe.
  Brining is generally used as a preservative for meat and fowl; here it's used as a flavor enhancer.
  A traditional meal is a bowl of steamed rice eaten with a sauce containing bits of fish, fowl, or meat, eggs, vegetables, and spices such as onions, chilies, garlic, mint, ginger, or lemon grass.
  This is usually combined with fish, fowl, or red meat and copious spices to form a type of stew.
  Usually any meat, fowl, or seafood is curried, and frying is the typical method of cooking.
  Special meals usually include meat, fish, or fowl, along with one of a number of starchy foods, which vary by region.
  The menu was meat-heavy: fowl, pheasant, tripe, pork, steak, lamb and duck, cooked in a variety of ways.
  There was other meat galore, too, steak, pork, fowl, bacon, etc.
  All kosher-slaughtered animals undergo rigorous inspection, and meat and fowl must be thoroughly cleansed of blood.
  The borders are now completely closed for beef, fowl and pork imports.
  The term ‘vegetarian’ has only been around for about 150 years but abstinence from flesh, fish and fowl is as old as man himself.
  If you like red meat better than fowl, eat it more often.
3. 1.3 Birds collectively, especially as the quarry of hunters.
  总称飞禽（尤指捕猎对象）
  Example sentencesExamples
  These would eventually have flourished, destroying the local housing and creating a forest teeming with fish, fowl, and game.
4. 1.4archaic A bird.
  〈古〉鸟
  Example sentencesExamples
  The birds we have had have been the ordinary fowl of a village garden: jackdaws, starlings, magpies, chaffinches and so on.

Origin

Old English fugol ‘bird’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vogel and German Vogel, also to fly.

词汇	fowl
释义	Definition of fowl in English: fowl nounPlural fowls faʊlfaʊl 1A gallinaceous bird kept for its eggs and flesh; a domestic cock or hen. 饲养鸡 The domestic fowl is derived from the wild red junglefowl of SE Asia (see junglefowl) Example sentencesExamples An old woman churns butter, while a woman in the foreground prepares a fowl for roasting and a third man spits a chicken at the far right. The behavioral sequence leading to a copulation has been extensively described in the domestic fowl. One of the most distinctive expressions in the chicken lexicon occurs when my fowls spot a bird of prey. The lecturer, in a most interesting and instructive address, dwelt chiefly on the principal characteristics of the three classes of fowls, the non-sitting or table fowl, the layer, and the general-purpose fowl. A L Basham lists India's contribution to World: rice, cotton, sugar cane, many spices, domestic fowl, game of chess etc. Although this assumption has not been rigorously tested in wild bird populations, data from domestic fowl suggest that, indeed, immunocompetence measurements might not be antigen specific. These birds also express high levels of a bacteriolytic lysozyme which is more similar in amino acid sequence to the rock pigeon than that of the domestic fowl. The domestic fowl is descended from the red junglefowl of south-east Asia and has been domesticated for 6 000 to 8 000 years. If ‘free-range’ is best, Joyce's were the most free-range fowls in creation; they were everywhere, and sociable, too, not at all averse to hopping up on a kitchen chair beside you while you had a cup of tea. Gallinaceous is an adjective describing birds of the order Gallinae, which includes common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, and quails. Above my head in the argusia bush a red-footed booby chick, the size of a domestic fowl, peers down at me. Birds affected by this disease are fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such as ostriches, emus and rhea. An experimental study in the domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus) found that paternity success varied across females, which were inseminated with equal numbers of sperm from two males. It is a good practice to put a burlap cloth, cheese cloth or paper towels over the litter for the first week so the young fowl can learn to distinguish the food from the litter. A typical recipe is in Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery: A very thick crust enclosed a turkey, which was stuffed with a goose, the goose with a fowl, then a partridge, then a pigeon. I thought the accompaniments would overshadow the fowl, but the chicken taste actually crept through to add a complex layer to the international tapestry of flavours. I have been known to be more of an owl than a fowl because I have late nights and struggle with early mornings. Breeds of domestic fowl are described under hen/chicken breeds. Immediately behind this is the kitchen garden, with still-existing hutches for rabbits, fowls and pigeons. In March it banned trade in chicken from West Java and South Sulawesi provinces after bird flu killed thousands of fowls there. Synonyms poultry 1.1 Any other domesticated bird kept for its eggs or flesh, e.g. a turkey or goose. 家禽 Example sentencesExamples Wild birds may carry these infections, but they typically prove most harmful to domestic fowl like chickens, ducks, and turkeys. About 1530, a new dish began to be put on English tables, a fowl a little larger than the traditional goose, but with a lot more meat and a refreshingly new taste. Eggs from chickens, ducks and geese would also have been eaten although the fowl of the period would not have laid as often as their modern counterparts. In addition, my family included nine dogs, about 40 ducks and domestic fowls, eight geese, a Bornean deer that weighed about 150 pounds, and two long-armed apes. This combination was a new one on me: it has always been citrus that chefs pair with duck, the fatty fowl undercut by the tartness of the fruit. The government destroyed almost 1.4 million chickens, ducks, geese and other fowl in the territory last month to stop the spread of an avian influenza. Most of these cases were thefts of livestock: primarily sheep, but also goats, cattle, hogs, fowls, and horses. In one large enterprise about two years ago they started breeding fowl - chicken and geese. Giblets are the edible internal parts of a fowl, including the gizzard, heart, liver, and neck. The focus will be on five categories of agricultural products: vegetables, fruit, milk, domestic animals and fowl, and aquatic products. However, sales don't drop completely as turkeys aren't the only fowl to be eaten over Christmas. New ways were found to supply goods formerly thought to be quasi-luxury items - notably chickens and turkeys by way of the new broiler fowl industry. I understand, and have seen at first hand on several occasions what a fox can do to a flock of chickens, or other domestic fowl. Synonyms poultry 1.2mass noun The flesh of domesticated birds as food; poultry. a stew of various meats and fowl Example sentencesExamples There was other meat galore, too, steak, pork, fowl, bacon, etc. Even the soup of the day is an intentional creation, using freshly prepared vegetables and stock with fresh meat, fowl, or fish added. Each dish had its own plate: round, square, triangular or oval, depending, as far as I could surmise, on whether it was fish, meat or fowl. This is usually combined with fish, fowl, or red meat and copious spices to form a type of stew. The flavor and acidity would match up well with shellfish and grilled fowl. Usually any meat, fowl, or seafood is curried, and frying is the typical method of cooking. It was here he discovered fresh seafood, superior salmon, wild game, and fowl, and Scandinavian butter - a dairy product containing more fat than most butters. The term ‘vegetarian’ has only been around for about 150 years but abstinence from flesh, fish and fowl is as old as man himself. The borders are now completely closed for beef, fowl and pork imports. Special meals usually include meat, fish, or fowl, along with one of a number of starchy foods, which vary by region. They may eat liberally from a list of ‘acceptable foods,’ which includes all types of fish, fowl, shellfish, meat, eggs, cheese, fats and oils, herbs, and some vegetables. If you like red meat better than fowl, eat it more often. The menu was meat-heavy: fowl, pheasant, tripe, pork, steak, lamb and duck, cooked in a variety of ways. All kosher-slaughtered animals undergo rigorous inspection, and meat and fowl must be thoroughly cleansed of blood. A quick jump in time and place to today reveals a general population who loves meat and fowl - as long as it is pre-packaged and no one has to think about how it got there. A traditional meal is a bowl of steamed rice eaten with a sauce containing bits of fish, fowl, or meat, eggs, vegetables, and spices such as onions, chilies, garlic, mint, ginger, or lemon grass. Before contact with the West, staple foods included yam, taro, banana, coconut, sugarcane, tropical nuts, greens, pigs, fowl, and seafood. Music runs from ethnic afro-beats to trendy lounge jazz; food is a multi-cultural fusion of fish, fowl and steak; and drinks and cigars come from all over the globe. Brining is generally used as a preservative for meat and fowl; here it's used as a flavor enhancer. The fish, fowl and meat chapters are full of simple dishes, fish with just herbs, olive oil and lemon in true Italian style. 1.3 Used in names of birds that resemble the domestic fowl. 用于与家禽相似鸟类名称 spurfowl Example sentencesExamples Guinea fowl meat is white like chicken but its taste is more reminiscent of pheasant, without excessive gamey flavor. The mallee fowl are the largest mound builders in Australia. The most striking of the guinea fowl, it is taller than its relatives. Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity. Guinea fowls, though hardy by nature, are susceptible to bacterial, round worm and ranikhet infections. 1.4 Birds collectively, especially as the quarry of hunters. 总称飞禽（尤指捕猎对象） an abundance of game, fowl, and fish Example sentencesExamples These would eventually have flourished, destroying the local housing and creating a forest teeming with fish, fowl, and game. 1.5archaic A bird. 〈古〉鸟 Example sentencesExamples The birds we have had have been the ordinary fowl of a village garden: jackdaws, starlings, magpies, chaffinches and so on. Origin Old English fugol 'bird', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vogel and German Vogel, also to fly¹. bird from Old English: The origin of bird is unknown, and there are no parallel forms in any of the languages related to English. Old English brid (with the r before the i) meant only a chick or a nestling: an adult bird was a fowl. The form brid existed alongside bird in the literary language into the 15th century, but after that it survived only in dialect. Meanwhile fowl stopped being a general term, and it now refers only to specialized groups such as wildfowl and waterfowl. The first record of the proverb a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush comes in the mid 15th century. In birds of a feather flock together, first recorded a century later, the word ‘a’ means ‘one’ or ‘the same’. The British slang use of bird to mean a young woman is associated with the 1960s and 1970s, but goes back as far as the Middle Ages. In those days there was another word bird, also spelled burd, that meant a young woman, which people confused with the familiar bird. The Virgin Mary could be described in those days as ‘that blissful bird of grace’. The modern use, recorded from the beginning of the 20th century, appears to be something of a revival. The earliest version of the expression give someone the bird, meaning to boo or jeer at them, is the big bird, which was used by people working in the theatre in the early 19th century. The big bird referred to was a goose, a bird well known for its aggressive hissing when threatened or annoyed. The booing and hissing of the audience at an actor's poor performance might well have suggested a flock of angry geese. Bird meaning ‘a prison sentence’ is a shortening of birdlime (see also viscous) used in rhyming slang to mean ‘time’. So if you were ‘doing bird’ or ‘doing birdlime’, you were ‘doing time’, a sense known from the mid 19th century. In golf a birdie is a score of one stroke under par (see pair) at a hole. Two under par is an eagle, three under par is an albatross or double eagle, and one over par is a bogey (see bogus). This scoring terminology is said to have originated at the end of the 19th century when an American golfer hit a bird with his drive yet still managed to score one under par at the hole—this bird suggested birdie, and the other bird names were added to continue the theme. Rhymes afoul, befoul, cowl, foul, growl, howl, jowl, owl, prowl, Rabaul, scowl, yowl Definition of fowl in US English: fowl nounfaʊlfoul 1A gallinaceous bird kept for its eggs and flesh; a rooster or hen. 饲养鸡 The domestic fowl is descended from the wild red junglefowl of Southeast Asia (see jungle fowl) Example sentencesExamples Breeds of domestic fowl are described under hen/chicken breeds. These birds also express high levels of a bacteriolytic lysozyme which is more similar in amino acid sequence to the rock pigeon than that of the domestic fowl. The behavioral sequence leading to a copulation has been extensively described in the domestic fowl. The lecturer, in a most interesting and instructive address, dwelt chiefly on the principal characteristics of the three classes of fowls, the non-sitting or table fowl, the layer, and the general-purpose fowl. In March it banned trade in chicken from West Java and South Sulawesi provinces after bird flu killed thousands of fowls there. I have been known to be more of an owl than a fowl because I have late nights and struggle with early mornings. An old woman churns butter, while a woman in the foreground prepares a fowl for roasting and a third man spits a chicken at the far right. A L Basham lists India's contribution to World: rice, cotton, sugar cane, many spices, domestic fowl, game of chess etc. The domestic fowl is descended from the red junglefowl of south-east Asia and has been domesticated for 6 000 to 8 000 years. Above my head in the argusia bush a red-footed booby chick, the size of a domestic fowl, peers down at me. Gallinaceous is an adjective describing birds of the order Gallinae, which includes common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, and quails. If ‘free-range’ is best, Joyce's were the most free-range fowls in creation; they were everywhere, and sociable, too, not at all averse to hopping up on a kitchen chair beside you while you had a cup of tea. Although this assumption has not been rigorously tested in wild bird populations, data from domestic fowl suggest that, indeed, immunocompetence measurements might not be antigen specific. A typical recipe is in Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery: A very thick crust enclosed a turkey, which was stuffed with a goose, the goose with a fowl, then a partridge, then a pigeon. An experimental study in the domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus) found that paternity success varied across females, which were inseminated with equal numbers of sperm from two males. Birds affected by this disease are fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such as ostriches, emus and rhea. I thought the accompaniments would overshadow the fowl, but the chicken taste actually crept through to add a complex layer to the international tapestry of flavours. It is a good practice to put a burlap cloth, cheese cloth or paper towels over the litter for the first week so the young fowl can learn to distinguish the food from the litter. Immediately behind this is the kitchen garden, with still-existing hutches for rabbits, fowls and pigeons. One of the most distinctive expressions in the chicken lexicon occurs when my fowls spot a bird of prey. Synonyms poultry 1.1 Any other domesticated bird kept for its eggs or flesh, e.g., the turkey, duck, goose, and guineafowl. 家禽 Example sentencesExamples The government destroyed almost 1.4 million chickens, ducks, geese and other fowl in the territory last month to stop the spread of an avian influenza. In one large enterprise about two years ago they started breeding fowl - chicken and geese. Wild birds may carry these infections, but they typically prove most harmful to domestic fowl like chickens, ducks, and turkeys. Eggs from chickens, ducks and geese would also have been eaten although the fowl of the period would not have laid as often as their modern counterparts. Giblets are the edible internal parts of a fowl, including the gizzard, heart, liver, and neck. In addition, my family included nine dogs, about 40 ducks and domestic fowls, eight geese, a Bornean deer that weighed about 150 pounds, and two long-armed apes. About 1530, a new dish began to be put on English tables, a fowl a little larger than the traditional goose, but with a lot more meat and a refreshingly new taste. This combination was a new one on me: it has always been citrus that chefs pair with duck, the fatty fowl undercut by the tartness of the fruit. The focus will be on five categories of agricultural products: vegetables, fruit, milk, domestic animals and fowl, and aquatic products. However, sales don't drop completely as turkeys aren't the only fowl to be eaten over Christmas. I understand, and have seen at first hand on several occasions what a fox can do to a flock of chickens, or other domestic fowl. New ways were found to supply goods formerly thought to be quasi-luxury items - notably chickens and turkeys by way of the new broiler fowl industry. Most of these cases were thefts of livestock: primarily sheep, but also goats, cattle, hogs, fowls, and horses. Synonyms poultry 1.2 The flesh of domesticated birds as food; poultry. Example sentencesExamples The flavor and acidity would match up well with shellfish and grilled fowl. Each dish had its own plate: round, square, triangular or oval, depending, as far as I could surmise, on whether it was fish, meat or fowl. A quick jump in time and place to today reveals a general population who loves meat and fowl - as long as it is pre-packaged and no one has to think about how it got there. Even the soup of the day is an intentional creation, using freshly prepared vegetables and stock with fresh meat, fowl, or fish added. They may eat liberally from a list of ‘acceptable foods,’ which includes all types of fish, fowl, shellfish, meat, eggs, cheese, fats and oils, herbs, and some vegetables. The fish, fowl and meat chapters are full of simple dishes, fish with just herbs, olive oil and lemon in true Italian style. It was here he discovered fresh seafood, superior salmon, wild game, and fowl, and Scandinavian butter - a dairy product containing more fat than most butters. Before contact with the West, staple foods included yam, taro, banana, coconut, sugarcane, tropical nuts, greens, pigs, fowl, and seafood. Music runs from ethnic afro-beats to trendy lounge jazz; food is a multi-cultural fusion of fish, fowl and steak; and drinks and cigars come from all over the globe. Brining is generally used as a preservative for meat and fowl; here it's used as a flavor enhancer. A traditional meal is a bowl of steamed rice eaten with a sauce containing bits of fish, fowl, or meat, eggs, vegetables, and spices such as onions, chilies, garlic, mint, ginger, or lemon grass. This is usually combined with fish, fowl, or red meat and copious spices to form a type of stew. Usually any meat, fowl, or seafood is curried, and frying is the typical method of cooking. Special meals usually include meat, fish, or fowl, along with one of a number of starchy foods, which vary by region. The menu was meat-heavy: fowl, pheasant, tripe, pork, steak, lamb and duck, cooked in a variety of ways. There was other meat galore, too, steak, pork, fowl, bacon, etc. All kosher-slaughtered animals undergo rigorous inspection, and meat and fowl must be thoroughly cleansed of blood. The borders are now completely closed for beef, fowl and pork imports. The term ‘vegetarian’ has only been around for about 150 years but abstinence from flesh, fish and fowl is as old as man himself. If you like red meat better than fowl, eat it more often. 1.3 Birds collectively, especially as the quarry of hunters. 总称飞禽（尤指捕猎对象） Example sentencesExamples These would eventually have flourished, destroying the local housing and creating a forest teeming with fish, fowl, and game. 1.4archaic A bird. 〈古〉鸟 Example sentencesExamples The birds we have had have been the ordinary fowl of a village garden: jackdaws, starlings, magpies, chaffinches and so on. Origin Old English fugol ‘bird’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vogel and German Vogel, also to fly.
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