fowl
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
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.
- 2.
(archaic)Any bird.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To hunt fowl.
We took our guns and went fowling.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(obsolete)foul
Paradise Lost, John Milton Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view / Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State / Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off / From their Creator, and transgress his Will / For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? / Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt?
Nguồn gốc từ
ine-pro From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (bird), from *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleuganą (to fly). Cognate with fûgel, Vagel, vogel, Vogel, fågel, fugl. voël. More at fly.