fowl

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 foul

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any bird. archaic
    — And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted
    And now I take upon myself the adventures of holy things / And now I see and understand that my old sin hinders me and shames me / so that I had no power to steer nor speak when the holy blood appeared afore me / So thus he sorrowed till it was day / and heard the fowls sing / then somewhat he was comforted
  2. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To hunt fowl.
    — We took our guns and went fowling.
形容词 adj.
  1. foul obsolete
    — 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?

词形变化

fowl plural fowls plural fowls present,singular,third-person fowling participle,present fowled participle,past fowled past fowler comparative fowlest superlative

词汇关系

近义词
fowl gamefowl poultry wildfowl
上位词
vertebrate animal bird
下位词
Larger groups duck megapode moundbuilder waterfowl Smaller groups argus bobwhite brant brush-turkey chachalaca chicken curassow eider francolin gallopheasant goldeneye goose guan guinea fowl junglefowl merganser monal partridge peafowl pheasant pintail pochard quail scaup scoter screamer scrubfowl shelduck shelgoose shoveler snowcock spurfowl swan teal tragopan turkey wigeon bamboo-partridge hill-partridge magpie-goose piping-guan tree-quail wood-partridge wood-quail Single species canvasback chukar dabchick gadwall garganey hardhead maleo mallard malleefowl redhead smew spotbill rosybill
衍生词
antifowl Cochin fowl Dorking fowl fowl bluegrass fowl grass fowl meadow grass fowlery fowl-house fowlhouse fowlish fowlkind fowllike fowl-like fowl-lore fowl paralysis fowl pest fowlpox fowl-run fowlyard frizzle fowl gamefowl game fowl guinea-fowl guinea fowl helmeted guinea fowl junglefowl jungle fowl landfowl make fish of one and fowl of another mallee fowl moorfowl neither fish, flesh, nor fowl neither fish nor fowl peafowl Philippine fowl disease rockfowl scrubfowl seafowl Spanish fowl spurfowl waterfowl wildfowl wormfowl yardfowl
相关词
:Category:Birds
部分词
See Thesaurus:bird

词源

From 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, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.
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