foule

See also foulé

French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ful/

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• 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 *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pelə- (“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

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 fullō (“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. first-person singular present subjunctive of fouler
5. second-person singular imperative of fouler

Anagrams

• floue

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), of Germanic origin.

Noun

foule f (plural foules)

1. crowd

Synonyms

• fliotchet