fowler
See also: Fowler
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English foulere, fouler, from Old English fuglere (“fowler”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuglārī, equivalent to fowl + -er. Doublet of veuglaire.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfaʊlə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophones: fouler, Fowler
Noun
[edit]fowler (plural fowlers)
- A hunter of wildfowl.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 124:7:
- Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped
- 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:
- Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Irish: foghlaeir
Translations
[edit]a hunter of wildfowl
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]fowler
- (Late Middle English) alternative form of foulere
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