fowler

See also: Fowler

English

Etymology

From Middle English foulere, voȝelere, fuwelare, fugelere, from Old English fuglere (“fowler”), equivalent to fowl +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈfaʊlə(ɹ)/
• Homophones: fouler, Fowler

Noun

fowler (plural fowlers)

1. A hunter of wildfowl.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 124:7:

     Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped

   • 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

     Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]

Related terms

• bat-fowler

Descendants

• → Irish: foghlaeir

Translations

a hunter of wildfowl

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捕鸟者 (bǔ niǎo zhě)

• Estonian: linnukütt
• French: oiseleur (fr) m
• German: Vogelfänger m, Vogelfängerin f, Vogeljäger m, Vogeljägerin f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἰξευτής m (ixeutḗs)

• Hungarian: madarász (hu), madarász (hu)
• Irish: foghlaeir m
• Japanese: 鳥狩り (togari)
• Latin: auceps m
• Ottoman Turkish: قوشجی (kuşcu)
• Polish: ptasznik (pl) m
• Romanian: păsărar (ro) m
• Scottish Gaelic: eunadair m
• Swedish: fågelfängare (sv) c
• Turkish: kuşçu (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎖𐎌 (yqš)
• Volapük: (♂♀) bödifanan (vo), (♂) bödihifanan, (♀) bödijifanan
• Welsh: adarwr m

Anagrams

• Flower, Wolfer, flower, flowre, reflow, wolfer