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Definition of pullets in English English dictionary
- plural of pullet
- pullet
- A spineless person; inconsiderate and/or foul, easily intimidated
- pullet
- A young hen, especially one less than a year old
he recommended that the patient should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
- pullet
- {n} a young hen, young fowl, close room
- pullet
- A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl
- pullet
- young hen usually less than a year old
- pullet
- {i} young hen
- pullet
- a young chicken that is in its first year of laying eggs (poulet, from poule )
- pullet
- flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying
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Etymology
[ 'pu-l&t ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English polet young fowl, from Middle French poulet, from Old French, diminutive of poul cock, from Late Latin pullus, from Latin, young of an animal, chicken, sprout; more at FOAL.Resimler
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