poule — meaning in English

English meaning

• bird noun A warm-blooded egg-laying animal with feathers, wings, and a beak.
• chicken noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
• hen noun An adult female chicken, especially one kept for laying eggs.

Senses

poule is used for these senses in English:

• bird (UK, Ireland, colloquial, by extension) A girlfriend. [from early 20th c.]
• round robin (originally, US, sports, often, attributive) The part of a tournament in which every player or team competes against each of the others in turn.
• round robin A letter or piece of writing which is circulated among members of a group, to which each person makes a contribution before sending it to another person; also, a packet of letters circulated regularly in a fixed order among a group (often family members), whereby each person replaces their previous contribution with a new letter, and then sends the packet to the next recipient.

bird — full definition

1. noun A warm-blooded egg-laying animal with feathers, wings, and a beak.
2. noun (informal) An aircraft.
3. noun (slang, British, dated/informal) A woman, especially a young one.
4. noun (slang) The rude gesture made by extending the middle finger.

chicken — full definition

1. noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
2. noun The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
3. noun (informal) A cowardly person.
4. adj (informal) Cowardly; afraid to do something.
5. verb (informal, usually with "out") To back out of something through fear.

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