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yard-fowl

yard-fowl is the alternative form of yardfowl.

Meaning of yardfowl

Noun

yardfowl (plural yardfowl or yardfowls)

  1. A chicken raised in a yard.
    • It alſo feeds Pheaſants, Partridges, Pidgeons, Yard-Fowls, &c., very expeditiously.1744 July, William Ellis, “Of French or Buck Wheat”, in The Modern Husbandman, or The Practice of Farming, volume III, London: Printed for, and sold by, T[homas] Osborne, […], and M. Cooper, […]...
  2. (Barbados) A political sycophant.
    • Like an expectant dog barking for his supper, he [Barbados Prime Minister Tom Adams] rushes in to please his new master [Ronald] Reagan like all good yardfowls by attacking Grenada.1980 November 10, Maurice Bishop, quotee, “Adams’ election call angers Bishop”, in The Daily Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica: Gleaner Company, →OCLC, page 5; quoted in Tony Thorndike, “The Political...

Forms of yard-fowl

pluralyard-fowl
pluralyard-fowls

Questions about yard-fowl

What is yard-fowl the alternative form of?
Yard-fowl is the alternative form of yardfowl.

Words near yard-fowl in the dictionary

  1. yard work
  2. yard-arita
  3. yard-aritas
  4. yard-arm
  5. yard-arms
  6. yard-fowl
  7. yard-fowls
  8. yard-garita
  9. yard-garitas
  10. yard-long
  11. yard-long bean

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