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Definition: Pullet |
PulletNoun1. Flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying. 2. Young hen usually less than a year old. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pullet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Pullet \Pul"let\, noun. [from Old English expression polete, Old French polete, French poulette, diminutive of poule hen, from the Latin expression pullus young animal, young fowl. See Foal, and compare to Poult, Poultry, Pool stake.]. (references) |
Synonyms: PulletSynonyms: frier (n), fryer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Infant | Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pullet |
| Etymologies containing "pullet": Punchinello. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Pullet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pullet" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "pullet": pullet sperm. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pullet | 20 |
black pullet | 9 |
crazy pullet | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pullet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zogë (chick, chicken, poult). (various references) | |
Arabic | فرخة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ярка (chicken). (various references) | |
Chinese | 小母鸡. (various references) | |
Czech | mladá slepice. (various references) | |
Danish | unghoene, hoeneke. (various references) | |
Dutch | jonge hen. (various references) | |
Farsi | مرغ تازه تخم کرده , مرغ جوان , جوجه مرغ یکساله وکمتر. (various references) | |
Finnish | nuorikko (bride), nuori kana. (various references) | |
French | poulette. (various references) | |
German | Hühnchen (chicken). (various references) | |
Greek | πουλάδα (young hen), ορνίθιο (chick, chicken). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פר'ית (spring chicken, young hen), פר'י". (various references) | |
Hungarian | jérce. (various references) | |
Indonesian | ayam dara. (various references) | |
Italian | pollastrella, pollastra. (various references) | |
Manx | earrag (poult). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ulletpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | franga. (various references) | |
Romanian | puicã (mouse), gãinã tânãrã. (various references) | |
Russian | курочка (crake), молодка. (various references) | |
Scottish | eireag (a pullet, young hen). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mlada kokoška. (various references) | |
Shona | tseketsa. (various references) | |
Spanish | polla (chick, Dick, pool, prick). (various references) | |
Swedish | unghöna. (various references) | |
Turkish | piliç (babe, baby, chick, chicken, dish, poult, spring chicken). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | молода курка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | g mái tơ. (various references) | |
Welsh | cywen (young hen). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pullet": pullets. (additional references) | |
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"Pullet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pallent, pallett, Paulet, Pellett, pillet, pluget, Poblet, polet, Pollert, Pollet, Pollett, pollit, poulet, Pule, pulen, pulet, pulit, Pulle, Pullee, pulli, pulot, pulte, Puplett, Tullett, Ullet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pullet" (pronounced 'Pul"let'): Armlet, Ballet, Batlet, Beamlet, Bendlet, Birdlet, Bloodlet, Booklet, Bracelet, Bractlet, Branchlet, Brooklet, Budlet, Bullet, Camlet, Cantlet, Chainlet, Chamlet, Cloudlet, Corselet, Corslet, Couplet, Croslet, Cross-crosslet, Crownlet, Cutlet, Finlet, Flamelet, Fortlet, Frislet, Frondlet, frontlet, Giblet, Goblet, gullet, Hamlet, Haslet, Inlet, islet, kinglet, leaflet, Liplet, Lobelet, mallet, Martlet, millet, Mountlet, Murrelet, necklet, Notelet. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: letup, tulle. | |
-2 letters: lept, lute, pelt, pule, pull, tell, tule. | |
-3 letters: ell, let, leu, pet, pul, put, tel, tup. | |
-4 letters: el, et, pe, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: pollute, pullets. | |
+2 letters: multiple, outspell, plateful, plumelet, polluted, polluter, pollutes. | |
+3 letters: multiples, multiplet, multiplex, multipole, opulently, outpolled, outpulled, outspells, petiolule, platefuls, platesful, plentiful, plumelets, polluters, pollutive, pullulate, pulsatile. | |
+4 letters: eucalyptol, leucoplast, multiplets, multiplied, multiplier, multiplies, outspelled, petiolules, petulantly, pitifuller, platterful, postbellum, pullulated, pullulates, spitefully, unpolluted. | |
+5 letters: bulletproof, corpulently, cupellation, equipollent, eucalyptole, eucalyptols, leucoplasts, multiplayer, multiplexed, multiplexer, multiplexes, multiplexor, multipliers, outspelling, painfullest, perpetually, pitifullest, platterfuls, plattersful, plenteously, plentifully, pluralities, pulverulent, spirituelle, spitefuller, submultiple, ultrasimple, unpalatable. | |
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