Meaning

noun a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

noun the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food

verb hunt fowl

originFrom Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish, Icelandic,…

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