different between foule vs oule

English

Adjective

foule (comparative more foule, superlative most foule)

1. Obsolete form of foul.
   • 1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I:

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ful/
• Rhymes: -ul
• Homophones: foulent, foules

Etymology 1

From Middle French foule (“group of men, people collectively”), alteration (due to Middle French foule (“act of treading”)) of Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Vulgar Latin, from Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulk? (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“to fill”). Cognate with Old High German folc (“people collectively, nation”), Old English folc (“common people, troop, multitude”). More at folk.

Noun

foule f (plural foules)

1. crowd
2. the thronging of a crowd
3. a great number, multitude, mass; host

Derived terms

• bain de foule

Etymology 2

From Middle French foule (“the act of milling clothes or hats”) and fouler (“to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat”), from Old French foler (“to crush, act wickedly”), from Latin full? (“I trample, I full”). More at full.

Noun

foule f (plural foules)

1. the act or process of treading or milling
2. oppression, vexation

Verb

foule

1. first-person singular present indicative of fouler
2. third-person singular present indicative of fouler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fouler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fouler
5. second-person singular imperative of fouler

Anagrams

• floue

Further reading

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

German

Verb

foule

1. inflection of foulen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Norman

Etymology

From Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Vulgar Latin, from Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulk? (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pel?- (“to fill”).

Noun

foule f (plural foules)

1. (Jersey) crowd

Synonyms

• fliotchet

English

Noun

oule (plural oules)

1. Obsolete spelling of owl

Anagrams

• loue

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan ola (“marmite”).

Noun

oule f (plural oules)

1. cauldron, handleless earthen pot, marmite
2. (geography) pothole, water cavity
3. (geography, by extension) watercourse that contains such a pothole
4. (by extension) town or village located near such a fluvial feature

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

• ule

Etymology

From French vouloir.

Verb

oule auxiliary

1. To want (to do something)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• owle, ule, howle, owlle, oul

Etymology

Inherited from Old English ?le, from Proto-Germanic *uwwal?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?l(?)/

Noun

oule (plural oules)

1. owl (the order Strigiformes).
2. (derogatory) An insult, especially applied to the Devil.
3. (heraldry, rare) An owl on a blazon.

Descendants

• English: owl
• Scots: oul, ool

References

• “?ule, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-4.