poultry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese) raised for food (meat, eggs, or both).

   A poultry farmer.

2. 2
   noun

   The meat from a domestic fowl.

   The poultry counter.

3. 3
   noun

   a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

4. 4
   noun

   flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

Simplified etymology

Poultry came into Middle English from Old French pouletrie. It ultimately derives from Latin pullus, “young animal,” which was often applied to young chickens as well as young horses.

From Middle English pultrie, from Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pullus (“chick”). By surface analysis, poult + -ry. For the development of Middle English /u/ to modern /oʊ/, /əʊ/ before /lt/, /ld/, /ln/, compare boult, boulder, colter/coulter, poultice, shoulder, won't.

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