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pullets

pullets is the plural of pullet.

Meaning of pullet

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
  2. (slang) A spineless person; a coward.
  3. (obsolete, slang) A girl or young woman.

Questions about pullets

What is pullets the plural of?
Pullets is the plural of pullet.

Words near pullets in the dictionary

  1. pullers
  2. pullest
  3. pullet
  4. pulleth
  5. Pulletop
  6. pullets
  7. pulley
  8. pulley block
  9. pulley blocks
  10. pulley bone
  11. pulley bones

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