Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fowl
IPA transcription: [f'aʊl]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: domestic_fowl, fowl, poultry
    Meaning: a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
Usage examples
  • "We can not tame an eagle as we can a barnyard fowl.
  • Often it is given to ducks and fowl to fatten them, and sometimes it is put into the curry pot.
  • Put a little bag of "mixed spices," such as are used in making pickles, on to cook with the fowl.
  • "Besides, it's a casserole, with rice, and I defy you to detect whether the chief ingredient be fish, flesh or fowl."
  • It was a sight which gave a zest to his comfortable quarters, and to the cold fowl and the bottle of wine which the butler had brought up for him.
  • To her master's bitter, though deserved, reproaches, Marfa Ignatyevna replied that the fowl was a very old one to begin with, and that she had never been trained as a cook.
  • The prisoner expected that he would be at no expense that day, for like an economical man he had concealed half of his fowl and a piece of the bread in the corner of his cell.
  • Marfa Ignatyevna cooked the dinner, and the soup, compared with Smerdyakov's, was "no better than dish-water," and the fowl was so dried up that it was impossible to masticate it.
  • There, before either king, or courtiers, or ladies-in-waiting could stop her--even had they wished to do it, which remains doubtful--she came behind the wicked Grognon, and twisted her neck, just as a cook does a barn-door fowl.
  • The berries, arranged on bunches of nice curled parsley, make an exceedingly pretty garnish for supper-dishes, particularly for white meats, like boiled fowl a la Bechamel, the three colours, scarlet, green, and white, contrasting so well, and producing a very good effect.