Here’s a faintly seasonal mix-up with an accompanying adorable picture.
Foul
- offensive, obscene or vulgar; unpleasant
- foul smelling or dirty; full of dirt or offensive matter
- evil, wicked or immoral
- bad tempered, cross or irritable
- unfair or dishonorable; against the rules of a sport
- to make dirty or polluted; to spoil or damage
- to come into conflict with (‘fall foul of’)
Fowl
- a domesticated bird such as a chicken
- a bird raised or kept for food, or hunted as game
- the meat of fowl
- a bird; a collective term for birds
Ducklings are fowl and not foul. (Although, like all baby things, they are full of offensive matter that will go everywhere. And it stains. So I think that illustrates foul/fowl is a matter of perspective.)
Hannah McCall 
One can have a foul fowl. The fowl can become foul by fouling himself by falling into a foul trash heap. If it was on purpose, this fowl would be a foul smelling and foul intended little fowl.
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I love the English language. I was thinking along the same lines myself!
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So much cute and funny mixed into my daily education. I appreciate your daily posts.
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Thank you. I’m glad you enjoy them. 🙂
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Got another one you might like to cover (if you haven’t done so already). The two definition of the word “worry” might be fun to talk about.
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That’s a fantastic idea – who doesn’t enjoy a bit of Old English and the phrase ‘seize by the throat and tear’? Thank you. 🙂
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It actually came up while I was having dinner with my wife at a local restaurant. She had ordered chicken that was proving difficult to get off the bone with knife and fork, so I jokingly suggested she just worry the bone with her teeth. She’d never heard that definition of the word, and I immediately thought, “There’s one for Hannah!” 😉
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And I am very grateful! Commiserations to your wife though for what sounds like a not very enjoyable food experience.
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