different between fouler vs foule

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).

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