1. Adult male bird.
2. Adult male chicken; SYN. rooster.
3. Obscene terms for penis; SYN. prick, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, tool.
ETYM Old Eng. foul, fowel, foghel, fuhel, fugel, AS. fugol.
(Homonym: foul).
Chicken or chickenlike bird. Sometimes the term is also used for ducks and geese. The red jungle fowl Gallus gallus is the ancestor of all domestic chickens. It is a forest bird of Asia, without the size or egg-laying ability of many domestic strains. Guinea fowl are of African origin.