‘You poor boiling fowl’ is addressed to a woman by a man in The Half Hunter, by John Sherwood. The speaker is characterized in part by his use of unusual vocatives, and this is certainly one of...

Good is the fowl which another rears. (Spanish) The disobedient fowl obeys in a pot of soup....

The birds referred to as fowl belong to one of two orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl (Galliformes) and the waterfowl (Anseriformes). Interestingly, studies of anatomical and molecular similarities suggest these two groups were close evolutionary...