fowl
To hunt fowlTo hunt fowl.
» Neither fish nor fowl.
Weder Fisch noch Fleisch.
Ни рыба ни мясо.
Ні риба ні м'ясо.
Хтозна що.
Meaning
2 senses(intransitive)To hunt fowl.
We took our guns and went fowling.
hunt fowl
(transitive)To use or traverse in pursuit of fowls.
Examples
13 sentencesNeither fish nor fowl.
Ні риба ні м'ясо. — Ahha
ruНи рыба ни мясо. — al_ex_an_der
deWeder Fisch noch Fleisch. — Alois
He made off with the fowl.
This region is famous for its fowl.
The fowls were well roasted by the cook.
It's hard to say because it's neither fish nor fowl.
deEs ist schwer zu sagen, weil es weder Fisch noch Fleisch ist. — Dejo
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from ProFrom 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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Forms
fowls, fowling, fowled, fowledWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle