pullen

domestic fowl; poultry

Noun

  1. domestic fowl; poultry
    • The palsie plagues my pulses when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen your culuers take, or matchles make your Chanticleare or sullen - c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum,...
  2. the meat from a domestic fowl
  3. the young of a bird, or, figuratively, human children

Origin

From Middle English poleyn, from Old French polain (modern French poulain), from Late Latin pullāmen; compare pullet.