A dialectal or archaic word for fowl; a bird, especially a domestic bird like a chicken or duck.
A shortened form or dialectal variant of 'fowl,' found in Scottish and Northern English dialects, related to Old English 'fugol' and Germanic roots meaning bird.
Regional dialects preserve these shortened forms like linguistic fossils—'fow' survives in some Scottish speech as evidence of how language contracts and changes differently in isolated communities.
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