poule

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /puːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl

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, published 2008, page 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, published 2011, page 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. (fencing) Alternative form of pool
2. 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): [ˈpou̯lɛ]

Verb

poule

1. masculine singular present transgressive of poulit

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French poule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puːl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pou‧le

Noun

poule m (plural poules)

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pul/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ul

Etymology 1

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

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)

   Ma poule vient de pondre un œuf.

   My hen has just laid an egg.

2. (slang) chick, bird (woman)

Derived terms

• ça roule, ma poule
• chair de poule
• lait de poule
• mère poule
• nid de poule
• papa poule
• poule au pot
• poule aux œufs d’or
• poule de bruyère
• poule des bois
• poule des coudriers
• poule d’eau
• poule d’Inde
• poule faisane
• poule mouillée
• poule perdrix
• poule pondeuse
• poule sultane
• quand les poules auront des dents
• se coucher avec les poules

 

Related terms

• poulain
• poulet

Descendants

• → Dutch: poelepetaat (from poule pintade)
• → English: poule

See also

• coq

Etymology 2

Uncertain.

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

Further reading

• “poule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• loupe, loupé

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

• hèrbe à poules (“annual meadow grass”)
• lait d'poule (“milkshake”)
• poule dg'ieau (“moorhen”)
• poule d'ieau (“lumpsucker”)
• poulette (“pullet”)
• séthée ès poules (“bachelorette party, hen night, hen party”)

 

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)

Derived terms

• poulet

Descendants

• French: poule
  • → English: poule
• ⇒ Old French: polaille, poulaille
  • French: poulaille
    • → Middle English: pullayle
• Norman: poule
• Walloon: poye

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