different between ullet vs pullet

English

Etymology

Compare Old French hullote, English howlet.

Noun

ullet (plural ullets)

1. A European owl, Strix aluco, of a tawny color; the uluia.

Anagrams

• Tuell, Tulle, tulle

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