FOWL Synonyms

• small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs

• (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman

• flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)

• a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents

• to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away

• submerge or plunge suddenly

• dip into a liquid

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks

• a man who is a stupid incompetent fool

• flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)

• pinch in the buttocks

• prod into action

• give a spurt of fuel to

• flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil

• popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet

• hunt grouse

• complain

• adult female chicken

• adult female bird

• flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing

• female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster

• flesh of either quail or grouse

• heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds

• small Old World gallinaceous game birds

• a popular North American game bird; named for its call

• valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada

• large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere

• flesh of a pheasant; usually braised

• wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs

• flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised

• small gallinaceous game birds

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• adult male chicken

• large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

• a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923

• a person who does something thoughtless or annoying

• flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted

• an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual

• a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world

• warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

• the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food

• informal terms for a (young) woman

• a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

• badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

• watch and study birds in their natural habitat

• a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

• flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

• a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl