foul vs fowl

Definitions

adjective

1. characterized by obscenity
2. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
3. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
4. violating accepted standards or rules
5. offensively malodorous

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verb

1. make impure
2. become soiled and dirty
3. make unclean
4. commit a foul; break the rules
5. hit a foul ball

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noun

1. an act that violates the rules of a sport

Examples

It gives a little bling to the foulard and the masculine touch gives it an astute edge.

A couple of coats of new antifouling paint may cost the equivalent of a couple tanks of gas, but you will keep saving money on fuel all season long.

You would commit the most foul of murders out of loyalty to me.

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Definitions

verb

1. hunt fowl
2. hunt fowl in the forest

noun

1. a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
2. the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food

Examples

‘I am not afraid of neologism,’ wrote the fearless Professor Fowler.

My grandfather is an old hunter, he has a medieval fowling piece.

In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.

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