Borrowed fromFrenchpoule, fromLatinpullus, pulla.
poule (pluralpoules)
- Agirl, a young woman, especially seen aspromiscuous; aslut.[from 1920s]
1926,Ernest Hemingway,The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published2008, page40:It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching[…] thepoules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal.
2000,J. G. Ballard,Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published2011, page369:‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm apoule they picked up in the street.’
poule (pluralpoules)
- (fencing)Alternative form ofpool
- Obsolete form ofpool (in various senses)
FromLatinpulla.
poule f (pluralpoules)
- hen
poule
- masculinesingularpresenttransgressive ofpoulit
Borrowed fromFrenchpoule.
- IPA(key): /puːl/
- Hyphenation:pou‧le
poule m (pluralpoules)
- pool,group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)
Inherited fromOld French, fromVulgar Latinpulla, feminine form ofLatinpullus.
poule f (pluralpoules)
- hen(female chicken)
Mapoule vient de pondre un œuf.- Myhen has just laid an egg.
- (slang)chick,bird(woman)
Uncertain.
poule f (pluralpoules)
- (card games)pool
- pool,group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)
FromOld Frenchpoule, fromVulgar Latinpulla, feminine form ofLatinpullus(“rooster”).
poule f (pluralpoules)
- (Jersey)hen
FromVulgar Latinpulla, feminine form ofpullus.
poule f (pluralpoules)
- hen(female chicken)
- Godefroy, Frédéric,Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIXe auXVe siècle (1881) (poule, supplement)
poule f (pluralpoules)
- pool stage
