FOWL


Meaning of FOWL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

guinea fowl

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

guinea

Add some celery and apple to the shallot dressing and spoon around the guinea fowl terrine.

She sometimes puts slices of smoked guinea fowl around the edge to give added texture.

You get sensible, straight forward dishes such as guinea fowl with honey and sesame seeds.

Katie's Game supplies duck, quail and guinea fowl , which it also bones for its customers.

Belle Hiya-sorry-the guinea fowl is proving more complicated than expected.

William He's cooking guinea fowl ?

■ VERB

fish

Mr. Renton I disagree with my hon. Friend about the agencies being neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring.

The hovercraft has always suffered from the fact that it is neither fish nor fowl .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

neither fish nor fowl

We were caught between two generations, neither fish nor fowl.

Mr. Renton I disagree with my hon. Friend about the agencies being neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring.

The hovercraft has always suffered from the fact that it is neither fish nor fowl.

Yet officially we are demographically insignificant, neither fish nor fowl.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A hen or stewing chicken or fowl is a mature female chicken, more than ten months old.

Fish, fowl and meat, most with a decidedly Southwestern treatment, are represented on the menu.

On the glistening horizon two black dots appeared, separated, and became helicopters roaring low overhead and scattering the distracted fowl .

Red Jungle Fowl are the progenitors of the bewildering variety of domestic fowl.

The menu of entrees at Firecracker ranges from fish to fowl to hoofed beast.

The red jungle fowl is the ancestor of the domestic chicken.

The voice on the telephone had informed the police the butcher was in the habit of buying stolen sheep and fowl .

Then perhaps some joints of meat, or a fowl .

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