- [countable, uncountable] (plural fowl, fowls)
a bird that is kept for its meat and eggs, for example a chicken 家禽 a variety of domestic fowl 各種家禽 fowl such as turkeys and ducks 諸如火雞和鴨之類的家禽
- [countable] (old use)
any bird 鳥
Word OriginOld English fugol ‘bird’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vogel and German Vogel, also to fly (verb).
Idioms
neither fish nor fowl
neither one thing nor another 非驢非馬；不倫不類 The hovercraft has always suffered from the fact that it is neither fish nor fowl. 氣墊船一直飽受不倫不類之苦。