pullet
/ˈpʊlɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
Example Sentences
- "They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them."
- "The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door."
- "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."
- "The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […]."
- "“Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.” “Yes, and replaced them with pullets that will be layers,” Ma guessed. “It would be Mrs. Boast all over. A more generous woman never lived.”"
Etymology
From Middle English polet, pulet, from Anglo-Norman pullet, Old French poulet (“young chicken”); polette (“young hen”), from poule (“hen”), from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus. Doublet of poult. Compare also Middle English pulle. By surface analysis, pull(us) + -et.
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Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈpʊlɪt/