different between poule vs poulp

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pu?l/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French poule, from Latin pullus, pulla.

Noun

poule (plural poules)

1. A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut. [from 1920s]
   • 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society 2008, p. 40:

     It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching […] the poules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal.

   • 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 369:

     ‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’

Etymology 2

Noun

poule (plural poules)

1. Obsolete form of pool (in various senses)

Anagrams

• Loupe, Puleo, loupe

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin pulla.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen

Synonyms

• geleigne

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pou?l?]

Verb

poule

1. masculine singular present transgressive of poulit

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pul/

Etymology 1

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of from Latin pullus.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)
2. (slang) chick, bird (woman)

Derived terms

Related terms

• poulain
• poulet

See also

• coq

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. (card games) pool
2. pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)

Derived terms

• phase de poule

Descendants

• English: pool

Anagrams

• loupe, loupé

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Old French poule, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus (“rooster”).

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. (Jersey) hen

Synonyms

• g'linne

Derived terms

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)

Derived terms

• poulet

Descendants

• ? Middle English: pulle
• French: poule
• Norman: poule

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (poule, supplement)

Spanish

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. pool stage

English

Noun

poulp (plural poulps)

1. Alternative form of poulpe