poultry
pronunciation
How to pronounce poultry in British English:
UK [ˈpəʊltri]
How to pronounce poultry in American English:
US [ˈpoʊltri]
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- Noun:
- a domesticated gallinaceous bird though to be descended from the red jungle fowl
- flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
Word Origin
- poultry
- poultry: [14] Poultry comes ultimately from a Latin word for a ‘young animal’, which also gave English pony. It was borrowed from Old French pouleterie, a derivative of pouletier ‘poultry dealer’. This in turn was based on poulet (source of English pullet [14]), a diminutive form of poule ‘hen’, which went back via Vulgar Latin *pulla to Latin pullus ‘young animal, young horse, young chicken’ (source of English pony and related to foal). Punch, as in ‘Punch and Judy’, may come from pullus too.=> foal, pony, pullet
- poultry (n.)
- "domestic fowls," late 14c. (mid-14c. as "place where poultry is sold"), from Old French pouletrie "domestic fowl" (late 13c.), from pouletier "dealer in domestic fowl," from poulet "young fowl" (see pullet).
Example
- 1. People often become ill after eating contaminated poultry .
- 2. Poultry workers fear losing their jobs .
- 3. A similar quantity of soyabeans has gone to pakistan 's poultry farms .
- 4. Marketing boards still control the production and import of dairy and poultry products .
- 5. Like factory-farmed poultry , china 's banks operate within tight limits .