- [countable, uncountable] (plural fowl, fowls)a bird that is kept for its meat and eggs, for example a chicken
- a variety of domestic fowl
- fowl such as turkeys and ducks
- [countable] (old use) any bird see also guinea fowl, waterfowl, wildfowlTopics Birdsc2
Word OriginOld English fugol ‘bird’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vogel and German Vogel, also to fly (verb).
Idioms
See fowl in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryneither fish nor fowl
- neither one thing nor another
- The hovercraft has always suffered from the fact that it is neither fish nor fowl.
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