Fowl Definition

foul

fowls

noun

fowls

Any of various birds of the order Galliformes, especially the common, widely domesticated chicken (Gallus domesticus).

American Heritage Medicine

Any of various domestic birds used as food.

Webster's New World

Any bird.

Wildfowl.

Webster's New World

The flesh of any of these birds used for food.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

verb

fowls

To catch, trap, hunt, or shoot wild birds for food or sport.

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Fowl

Singular:

fowl

Plural:

From Middle English foul, foghel, from Old English fugol, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘fowls of the air’), from *fleuganą ‘to fly’. Compare West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Danish fugl. More at fly.

From Wiktionary
Middle English foul from Old English fugol pleu- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition