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yardfowls

yardfowls is the plural 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 yardfowls

alternative formyard fowls
alternative formyard-fowls

Questions about yardfowls

What is yardfowls the plural of?
Yardfowls is the plural of yardfowl.

Words near yardfowls in the dictionary

  1. yarder
  2. yarders
  3. Yardes
  4. yardfowl
  5. yardfowlism
  6. yardfowls
  7. yardful
  8. yardfuls
  9. yardgarita
  10. yardgaritas
  11. yardgoat

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