pullet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pullet
1325–75; Middle English polet < Middle French poulet, diminutive of poul cock < Latin pullus chicken, young of an animal; akin to foal
Example Sentences
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One version that Pinker describes goes like this: Eugene O’Neill won a Pullet Surprise.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2014
Pullet breeder Andy Cawthray has sent some people away with a magazine or a book.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012
My name is Fred Pullet and I represent an association of small chicken breeders.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Well," said Aunt Pullet, "it'll perhaps be safer for the girls to come; they'll be touching something if we leave 'em behind."
From Tom and Maggie Tulliver by Eliot, George
Aunt Pullet half opened the shutter, and then unlocked the wardrobe with a melancholy deliberateness which was quite in keeping with the funereal solemnity of the scene.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney
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