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View synonyms for wildfowl

wildfowl

[ wahyld-foul ]

noun

  1. a game bird, especially a wild duck, goose, or swan.


wildfowl

/ ˈwaɪldˌfaʊl /

noun

  1. any bird that is hunted by man, esp any duck or similar aquatic bird
  2. such birds collectively
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈwildˌfowling, adjectivenoun
  • ˈwildˌfowler, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wildfowl1

before 1000; Middle English wilde foul, Old English wildefugl. See wild, fowl
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Example Sentences

Probably in October, the Pilgrims met their Wampanoag neighbors for three days of feasting on wildfowl and venison.

The air was so calm that the plaintive cries of thousands of wildfowl which covered the Point of Marsh struck faintly on our ears.

In summer, like the wildfowl, they disappear and go north to seek cool pastures in the Mongolian highlands.

Diametrically different—in cause and effect—is the case of wildfowl.

In five minutes they were all in the ocean, frisky as a school of porpoises, making enough noise to scare any wildfowl away.

Schoverling and Charlie employed the shotgun in turn, shooting from their horses, and stocking the whole camp with wildfowl.

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