different between gullet vs pullet

English

Etymology

From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *g?el- (“throat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???l.?t/, /???l.?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Noun

gullet (plural gullets)

1. The throat or esophagus.
2. (cytology) The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
3. The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
4. A channel for water.
5. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
6. The wide room under the pommel of a saddle, the hollow over the withers.

Synonyms

• (throat or esophagus): gorge
• (cytopharynx): cytopharynx

Related terms

• gully

Translations

See also

Northern Sami

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?ku?l?leh(t)/

Verb

g?l?let

1. to (catch) fish

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?kulleh(t)/

Verb

gullet

1. inflection of gullat:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular past indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gullet n

1. definite singular of gull

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gullet n

1. definite singular of gull

Swedish

Noun

gullet

1. definite singular of gull

English

Etymology

From Middle English polet, pulet, from Anglo-Norman pullet, Old French poulet (“young chicken”); polette (“young hen”), from poule (“hen”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Noun

pullet (plural pullets)

1. A young hen, especially one less than a year old. [from 14th c.]
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.11:

     They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 588:

     The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 187:

     he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.

   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 195:

     The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].

2. (slang) A spineless person; a coward.
3. (obsolete, slang) A young girl.

Related terms

• poultry

Translations

References

• (young girl): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary