Reverse Dictionary: FOWL

(also see CHICKEN, etc.)

ADJECTIVES
► GALLINIVOROUS feeding on fowls or poultry → 1862

INTERJECTIONS
► TEWKIE! a call to fowls → 1871 Sc. & Ireland

NOUNS
► AIR CORPS CHICKEN a fowl that is all wings → 1944 service sl. (Bk.)
► BEAKER a fowl → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► BIDDY a chicken; a fowl → a1616 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► CACKLEBIRD a hen → 1960s US sl.
► CACKLER a fowl → 1673 sl.
► CACKLER’S-KEN a hen-roost; a fowl-house → 1788 sl.
► CACKLING-CHEAT ► CACKLING-CHETE a fowl → 1567 sl.
► CHICKABIDDY a fowl → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► CHOOK a chicken or other domestic fowl → 1855 Aust. & NZ sl.
► CHOOKIE ► CHOOKY a chicken or other domestic fowl → 1855 Aust. & NZ sl.
► CHUCK-CHUCK a fowl → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► CHUCKIE ► CHUCKY a chicken or other domestic fowl → 1855 Aust. & NZ sl.
► CROPPERCROWN a top-knot on a fowl’s head → 1899 Amer. dial.
► DANDY a bantam fowl → 1828 Eng. dial.
► DANDY-COCK a bantam-cock → 1859 Eng. dial.
► DANDY-HEN a bantam-hen → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DARROL the smallest of the brood of pigs, fowl, etc. → Irish sl.
► FAIZART a hermaphrodite fowl → 1825 Sc.
► FIFTH QUARTER the giblets of a fowl → 1908 Amer. dial.
► GALENEY ► GALENY a fowl → 1812 sl.
► GARFITS entrails, garbage; the edible portions from the inside of a fowl, etc. → 1788 Eng. dial.
► JULIPER the juice from a fowl, or other meat, when cooking → 1936 Amer. dial.
► LADY AND GENTLEMAN RACKET the theft of barnyard fowls → M19 sl.
► LAST PART THROUGH THE FENCE the rump of a cooked chicken or fowl → 1954 Amer. dial.
► MARGERY PRATER a fowl, a hen → 1567 cant obs.
► PARTLET a fowl → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► PART THAT WENT OVER THE FENCE LAST the rump of a cooked chicken or fowl → 1871 Amer. dial.
► PLASTERER’S TROWEL AND SERINGAPATAM a fowl and ham → L19 rhyming sl.
► POPE’S NOSE the fatty extremity of a fowl’s rump → 1796
► PULTER an edible fowl; collectively, poultry → 1474 obs.
► QUERN the stomach of a fowl, the gizzard → 1825 Sc.
► SICKLE a tail-feather of a cock → c1710
► VENT of a fowl: the anus → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► GALLICIDE a killer of fowls → 1897
► HEN-HUSSY ► HEN-HUZZY a woman who looks after fowls → 1899 Amer. dial. arch.
► WALKING POULTERER a rural thief who steals fowls, then hawks them from door to door → L18 sl.

VERBS
► CUCURIATE to crow like a cock → 1623 obs.