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pullet

UK/ˈpʊlɪt/

pullet noun: a young hen, especially one less than a year old.

pullet: a young hen, especially one less than a year old
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Noun

pullet (plural pullets)

  1. A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
    • They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.11
    • The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 588
  2. (slang) A spineless person; a coward.
  3. (obsolete, slang) A girl or young woman.

pullet meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Arabic

pullet in Tamil

இளம் பெட்டைக் கோழி, விடலைக்குஞ்சு, விடைக் கோழி, கன்னிக்கோழி

pullet in Bengali

মুরগির ছানা, তরুণী মুরগি

pullet in Kannada

ಕೋಳಿಮರಿ

pullet in Arabic

young hen
فَرُّوجَة farrūja
More languagesFewer languages
pullet in Vietnamese
gà mái tơ

Examples of pullet in a sentence

  • he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 187:
  • The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 195:
  • “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.” “Yes, and replaced them with pullets that will be layers,” Ma guessed.1941, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie:

Forms of pullet

pluralpullets

Origin of pullet

From Middle English polet, pulet, from Anglo-Norman pullet, Old French poulet (“young chicken”); polette (“young hen”), from poule (“hen”), from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus. Doublet of poult. Compare also Middle English pulle. By surface analysis, pull(us) + -et.

Words that rhyme with pullet

Questions about pullet

What does pullet mean?
Pullet means a young hen, especially one less than a year old.
What is pullet in Tamil?
Pullet in Tamil is இளம் பெட்டைக் கோழி, விடலைக்குஞ்சு, விடைக் கோழி. See Pullet meaning in Tamil.
How do you use pullet in a sentence?
he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
What part of speech is pullet?
Pullet is a noun.
How do you pronounce pullet?
Pullet is pronounced /ˈpʊlɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of pullet?
The plural of pullet is pullets.

Words near pullet in the dictionary

  1. puller
  2. puller-outer
  3. puller-outers
  4. pullers
  5. pullest
  6. pullet
  7. pulleth
  8. Pulletop
  9. pullets
  10. pulley
  11. pulley block

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pullet (page history and authors); pullet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pullet (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pullet (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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