different between roaster vs fowl

English

Etymology

From Middle English roster, roostare, equivalent to roast +? -er. Same formation as roster, although the words have very different meanings.

Pronunciation

Noun

roaster (plural roasters)

1. One who roasts food.
   • 2011, Ruth A. Johnston, All Things Medieval: An Encyclopedia of the Medieval World

     […] they [professional cooks] had as many as 25 helpers, such as saucerers, larders, roasters, pottagers, bakers, spicers, and fruiterers, not to mention spit turners and scullions.

2. (cooking) A kitchen utensil used for roasting.

   Synonyms: roasting tin, roasting pan

3. A chicken, pig, etc. suitable for roasting.
4. A furnace used in making ball soda.
5. One who roasts or banters, especially as a comedy routine.
6. (planetology, informal) A hot Jupiter.
7. (Scotland, slang, derogatory) An objectionable person; somebody making a fool of themselves.

Anagrams

• Serrato, Traores, reroast, roarest

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleugan? (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish and Norwegian fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.

Pronunciation

• enPR: foul, IPA^(key): /fa?l/
• Homophone: foul
• Rhymes: -a?l
• Rhymes: -a??l

Noun

fowl (plural fowl or fowls)

1. (archaic) A bird.
2. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
3. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fowl (third-person singular simple present fowls, present participle fowling, simple past and past participle fowled)

1. To hunt fowl.

   We took our guns and went fowling.

Derived terms

• fowler
• fowling

Translations

References

Etymology 2

Adjective

fowl (comparative fowler, superlative fowlest)

1. (obsolete) foul
   • Paradise Lost, John Milton

     Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view / Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State / Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off / From their Creator, and transgress his Will / For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? / Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt?

References

• fowl at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fowl in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Wolf, flow, wolf

Middle English

Noun

fowl (plural fowles)

1. Alternative form of fowel

And smale fowles maken melodye
That slepen all the night with open ye - Chaucer, General Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll.9-10