poultn.¹

Brit.

/pəʊlt/, U.S.

/poʊlt/

Forms:

α. late Middle English pulte, 1600s poulse (plural), 1600s– poult, 1800s polt (English regional (southern)).

β. 1500s (1700s– English regional) pout, 1600s poote, 1600s pote, 1600s powte, 1600s (1800s– English regional (northern and midlands)) poot, 1700s– powt (now English regional); Scottish pre-1700 powtt, pre-1700 puittis (plural), pre-1700 puttis (plural), pre-1700 1700s– pout, pre-1700 1700s– powt, 1700s peutt, 1700s– poot.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pullet n.

Etymology: Originally a variant of pullet n., with elision of the unstressed e in the second syllable.Apparently attested earlier in a surname: Will. Pultbayn (1317), Rob. Pultbayn (c1346). For the phonological development compare discussion at poultry n. With sense 3 perhaps compare earlier pout n.¹

1. The young of the domestic fowl; a chick. Also (now usually): the young of the turkey, pheasant, guineafowl, and various game birds. In early use sometimes: a kind of game bird (apparently without regard to its age), probably the grouse. Frequently Scottish and English regional.See also heath-poult n., moor-pout n.

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl) > young or chicken

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α.

a1425 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1867) A. vii. l. 267 Pultys [c1390 Vernon I haue no peny..Poletes to bugge].

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 416 Pulte, yonge hen, gallinella.

1634 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons App. p. xxii 3 dozen pheasant poults from Oxford.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. D2 Pheasants, partridg, heath poulse.

1704 J. Locke Let. 16 Sept. in Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors (1846) IV. cxxiii. 580 4 Turkey poults ready larded.

1810 Sporting Mag. 36 291 Or where the polt, in open heath, Moves in an even line from death.

1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 162 Ptarmigan poults, hardly fledged.

1940 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Chron. iii. xv. 528 The young chicks died in large numbers from a contagious disease; the turkey poults were even more disappointing, for they succumbed to blackhead.

1987 Shooting Mag. July 29/2 Experience has shown that partridge poults..acclimatise best when released between 9–11 weeks of age.

β. 1502 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 155 To ane man brocht powtis to the King.1550 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 95 Item the blak cok, and the gray hen vi d. Item the powttis the doosen xii d.1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie Pref. Verse sig. B When the Spanels crosse the ronne, of Fesants in the wood, Or light vpon the little Poutes.1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 24^v Of wild [birds Cornwall hath] Quaile, Raile, Partridge..Powte, &c.1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxii. 679 Partridge, pheasant, quaile, raile, poots, and such like.1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 28 With which they persecute those poor souls, As setting Dogs do Pouts and Muirfowls.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 311/1 A Cock [is called] first a Peep, then a Chicken, then a Poot.1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 573 Found them as big as Poot-Eggs.1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pheasant-taking The old Cock and Hen [Pheasant], with all their young ones or Powts.1786 R. Burns Poems 221 As soon's the clockin-time is by, An' the wee powts begun to cry.1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Poot, a young growse or moor poot.1839 G. R. Gleig Only Daughter (1859) 33 She was na comin' to see the pouts fed.1890 J. Service Thir Notandums i. 5 The lambin' o' the yowes, the cleckin' o' the poots.1962 A. Jobson Window in Suffolk vi. 96 Grandfather called a calf a tib or tibby, a young turkey a pout or poult.1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Poot, a pullet. Clitheroe.

†2. Chiefly Scottish or colloquial. A child; a youth. Obsolete.

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1739 A. Nicol Poems 22 The meikle Trake come o'er their Snouts, That laugh at winsome kissing Pouts.

1790 J. Williams Shrove Tuesday in Cabinet (1794) 27 Bid the unbreech'd Poults and Pullets gaze.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour viii. xliv. 242 ‘He's a raw poult of a chap,’ replied Jack.

1897 W. D. Latto in A. Reid Bards Angus & Mearns 270/1 Whan I was but a feeble pout.

3. A small or young haddock, trout, cod, or other fish. Scottish. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. s.v. records this sense as still in use in Kincardineshire and Fife in 1964.

ΚΠ

1823 W. Tennant Cardinal Beaton V. vii. 174 We'se hae a bannock an a poot to our dinner.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	poult
释义	poultn.¹ Brit. /pəʊlt/, U.S. /poʊlt/ Forms: α. late Middle English pulte, 1600s poulse (plural), 1600s– poult, 1800s polt (English regional (southern)). β. 1500s (1700s– English regional) pout, 1600s poote, 1600s pote, 1600s powte, 1600s (1800s– English regional (northern and midlands)) poot, 1700s– powt (now English regional); Scottish pre-1700 powtt, pre-1700 puittis (plural), pre-1700 puttis (plural), pre-1700 1700s– pout, pre-1700 1700s– powt, 1700s peutt, 1700s– poot. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pullet n. Etymology: Originally a variant of pullet n., with elision of the unstressed e in the second syllable.Apparently attested earlier in a surname: Will. Pultbayn (1317), Rob. Pultbayn (c1346). For the phonological development compare discussion at poultry n. With sense 3 perhaps compare earlier pout n.¹ 1. The young of the domestic fowl; a chick. Also (now usually): the young of the turkey, pheasant, guineafowl, and various game birds. In early use sometimes: a kind of game bird (apparently without regard to its age), probably the grouse. Frequently Scottish and English regional.See also heath-poult n., moor-pout n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > young or brood poulta1425 coveyc1440 the world > animals > birds > wild or domestic birds > [noun] > game-bird > young poulta1425 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl) > young or chicken chickenOE chicka1398 poulta1425 chicken birdc1450 peepera1586 peepling1594 game chicken1674 peep1688 spring chicken1765 clucker1779 chickabiddy1785 chicklet1836 chickie1851 wing-chick1885 pee-pee1890 α. a1425 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1867) A. vii. l. 267 Pultys [c1390 Vernon I haue no peny..Poletes to bugge]. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 416 Pulte, yonge hen, gallinella. 1634 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons App. p. xxii 3 dozen pheasant poults from Oxford. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. D2 Pheasants, partridg, heath poulse. 1704 J. Locke Let. 16 Sept. in Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors (1846) IV. cxxiii. 580 4 Turkey poults ready larded. 1810 Sporting Mag. 36 291 Or where the polt, in open heath, Moves in an even line from death. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 162 Ptarmigan poults, hardly fledged. 1940 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Chron. iii. xv. 528 The young chicks died in large numbers from a contagious disease; the turkey poults were even more disappointing, for they succumbed to blackhead. 1987 Shooting Mag. July 29/2 Experience has shown that partridge poults..acclimatise best when released between 9–11 weeks of age. β. 1502 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 155 To ane man brocht powtis to the King.1550 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 95 Item the blak cok, and the gray hen vi d. Item the powttis the doosen xii d.1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie Pref. Verse sig. B When the Spanels crosse the ronne, of Fesants in the wood, Or light vpon the little Poutes.1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 24^v Of wild [birds Cornwall hath] Quaile, Raile, Partridge..Powte, &c.1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxii. 679 Partridge, pheasant, quaile, raile, poots, and such like.1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 28 With which they persecute those poor souls, As setting Dogs do Pouts and Muirfowls.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 311/1 A Cock [is called] first a Peep, then a Chicken, then a Poot.1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 573 Found them as big as Poot-Eggs.1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pheasant-taking The old Cock and Hen [Pheasant], with all their young ones or Powts.1786 R. Burns Poems 221 As soon's the clockin-time is by, An' the wee powts begun to cry.1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Poot, a young growse or moor poot.1839 G. R. Gleig Only Daughter (1859) 33 She was na comin' to see the pouts fed.1890 J. Service Thir Notandums i. 5 The lambin' o' the yowes, the cleckin' o' the poots.1962 A. Jobson Window in Suffolk vi. 96 Grandfather called a calf a tib or tibby, a young turkey a pout or poult.1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Poot, a pullet. Clitheroe. †2. Chiefly Scottish or colloquial. A child; a youth. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] wenchelc890 childeOE littleOE littlingOE hired-childc1275 smalla1300 brolla1325 innocentc1325 chickc1330 congeonc1330 impc1380 faunt1382 young onec1384 scionc1390 weea1400 birdc1405 chickenc1440 enfaunta1475 small boyc1475 whelp1483 burden1490 little one1509 brat?a1513 younkerkin1528 kitling1541 urchin1556 loneling1579 breed1586 budling1587 pledge?1587 ragazzo1591 simplicity1592 bantling1593 tadpole1594 two-year-old1594 bratcheta1600 lambkin1600 younker1601 dandling1611 buda1616 eyas-musketa1616 dovelinga1618 whelplinga1618 puppet1623 butter printa1625 chit1625 piggy1625 ninnyc1626 youngster1633 fairya1635 lap-child1655 chitterling1675 squeaker1676 cherub1680 kid1690 wean1692 kinchin1699 getlingc1700 totum17.. charity-child1723 small girl1734 poult1739 elfin1748 piggy-wiggy1766 piccaninny1774 suck-thumb18.. teeny1802 olive1803 sprout1813 stumpie1820 sexennarian1821 totty1822 toddle1825 toddles1828 poppet1830 brancher1833 toad1836 toddler1837 ankle-biter1840 yarkera1842 twopenny1844 weeny1844 tottykins1849 toddlekins1852 brattock1858 nipper1859 sprat1860 ninepins1862 angelet1868 tenas man1870 tad1877 tacker1885 chavvy1886 joey1887 toddleskin1890 thumb-sucker1891 littlie1893 peewee1894 tyke1894 che-ild1896 kiddo1896 mother's bairn1896 childling1903 kipper1905 pick1905 small1907 God forbid1909 preadolescent1909 subadolescent1914 toto1914 snookums1919 tweenie1919 problem child1920 squirt1924 trottie1924 tiddler1927 subteen1929 perisher1935 poopsie1937 pre-schooler1937 pre-teen1938 pre-teener1940 juvie1941 sprog1944 pikkie1945 subteenager1947 pre-teenager1948 pint-size1954 saucepan lid1960 rug rat1964 smallie1984 bosom-child- 1739 A. Nicol Poems 22 The meikle Trake come o'er their Snouts, That laugh at winsome kissing Pouts. 1790 J. Williams Shrove Tuesday in Cabinet (1794) 27 Bid the unbreech'd Poults and Pullets gaze. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour viii. xliv. 242 ‘He's a raw poult of a chap,’ replied Jack. 1897 W. D. Latto in A. Reid Bards Angus & Mearns 270/1 Whan I was but a feeble pout. 3. A small or young haddock, trout, cod, or other fish. Scottish. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. s.v. records this sense as still in use in Kincardineshire and Fife in 1964. ΚΠ 1823 W. Tennant Cardinal Beaton V. vii. 174 We'se hae a bannock an a poot to our dinner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). poultn.² Brit. /puːlt/, /pʊlt/, U.S. /pu(lt)/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: poult-de-soie n. Etymology: Shortened < poult-de-soie n. = poult-de-soie n. Also: a similar fabric manufactured from man-made fibres. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from man-made fibres > [noun] > artificial silk artificial silk1879 poult1883 art silk1885 Chardonnet silk1893 near-silka1911 viscose silk1913 Celanese1921 rayon1924 viscose rayon1930 viscose1932 Tricel1954 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from silk > [noun] > types of > corded paduasoy1588 poult-de-soie1835 poult1883 1883 H. C. Merivale White Pilgrim 200 Dark amethyst on jupes of poult Wore the Princesses. 1938 Times 7 July 22/1 A gown..with a bodice of white poult. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 199/1 Nylon Fabric is now available in many different finishes, such as tricot, net, poult. 2002 Grimsby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 23 Apr. 26 Their dresses of cardinal red poult were worn with petal caps in the same shade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † poultv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: poult n.¹ Etymology: < poult n.¹ Compare later pout v.³ Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To catch chickens or poultry. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > seize quarry > catch chickens or poultry poult1657 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 4 No feare of losing our hauke, by going out at Cheik, or to a village to Poult. 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. x. 34/1 Goshawks by nature are addicted to Poult; that is, to kill Poultrey. 1735 Sportsman's Dict. II Poult, that is, killing poultry.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.¹a1425n.²1883v.1657
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