wildfowl

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English

Etymology

From wild +‎ fowl.

Pronunciation

Noun

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wildfowl (plural wildfowls or wildfowl)

  1. Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.
    • 1785, William Cowper, The Task: A Poem in Six Books‎, London: J. Johnson, Book 4, p. 168:
      […] Whoso seeks an audit here
      Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish,
      Wildfowl or ven’son, and his errand speeds.
    • 1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Wartburg, page 81:
      In these early days of the journey we eat well. We have brought salted meat, flour, beans, dried fruit, and there are wildfowl to shoot.
  2. Waterfowl.

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Verb

wildfowl (third-person singular simple present wildfowls, present participle wildfowling, simple past and past participle wildfowled)

  1. To hunt wildfowl.
    • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 220b:
      The hunting of the kind of winged creatures, taken as a whole, is called wildfowling.

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