How do you use the word "fowl" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "fowl": Neither fish nor fowl. This is a fowl.

Fowl Meaning

/faʊl/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA 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.

nounAny bird.

Sentence Examples

Neither fish nor fowl.

This is a fowl.

It's hard to say because it's neither fish nor fowl.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

bird poultry

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The farmer raised ____ for their eggs and meat.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The farmer raised various types of ____, including chickens, ducks, and geese, on his land.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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" — 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:

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