different between foller vs fouler

English

Verb

foller (third-person singular simple present follers, present participle follering, simple past and past participle follered)

1. Pronunciation spelling of follow.

English

Etymology

foul +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fa?l.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fa?l.?/
• Homophone: fowler

Noun

fouler (plural foulers)

1. One who fouls.
   • 2015, Saleem Mustafa, Rossita Shapawi, Aquaculture Ecosystems: Adaptability and Sustainability (page 119)

     For example, several species of hydroids and bryozoans are important foulers of salmon cages in Australia (Hodson et al., 2000) and Norway (Guenther et al., 2010).

Adjective

fouler

1. comparative form of foul: more foul

Anagrams

• refoul

French

Etymology

From Middle French fouller (“to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat”), from Old French foler (“to crush, act wickedly”), from Latin full? (“I trample, I full”). More at full.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.le/
• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: foulai, foulé, foulée, foulées, foulés, foulez

Verb

fouler

1. (transitive) to stamp, impress, dent; to mill
2. (transitive) to walk on, trample
3. (transitive) to oppress, mistreat
4. (transitive) to injure by knocking, bumping or dinting
5. (reflexive) to sprain

6. (takes a reflexive pronoun, chiefly in the negative, colloquial) to wear oneself out, to overdo it

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “fouler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).