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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 birds
  2. yard dart
  3. yard darts
  4. yard duties
  5. yard duty
  6. yard fowl
  7. yard fowls
  8. yard globe
  9. yard goat
  10. yard goats
  11. yard goods

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