fowlとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: foul, IPA: /faʊl/
• Homophone: foul
• 韻: -aʊl
• 韻: -aʊəl

名詞

fowl (plural fowl or fowls)

1. 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.
2. (archaic) Any bird.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:

     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

派生語

派生した語

• Krio: fɔl
• Sranan Tongo: fowru

動詞

fowl (third-person singular simple present fowls, present participle fowling, simple past and past participle fowled)

1. To hunt fowl.

   We took our guns and went fowling.

派生語

• fowler
• fowling

参照

語源 2

形容詞

fowl (comparative fowler, superlative fowlest)

1. (obsolete) foul
   • 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?

参照

• “fowl”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fowl”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Wolf, flow, wolf

名詞

fowl

1. alternative form of foul (“bird”)

語源 2

形容詞

fowl

1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of foul (“foul”)