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fowlhouse

fowlhouse noun: a building for keeping fowls; a henhouse.

Noun

fowlhouse (plural fowlhouses)

  1. A building for keeping fowls; a henhouse.
    • "Where's you Uncle Jobson?" he exclaimed. "In the fowlhouse," said Peter.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 10

Forms of fowlhouse

pluralfowlhouses

Origin of fowlhouse

From fowl + house.

Questions about fowlhouse

What does fowlhouse mean?
Fowlhouse means a building for keeping fowls; a henhouse.
What part of speech is fowlhouse?
Fowlhouse is a noun.
What is the plural of fowlhouse?
The plural of fowlhouse is fowlhouses.

Words near fowlhouse in the dictionary

  1. fowlers
  2. Fowlers Gap
  3. fowlery
  4. fowles
  5. fowlest
  6. fowlhouse
  7. fowlhouses
  8. fowlicidin
  9. fowlicidins
  10. fowling
  11. fowling piece

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