poule

• (UK) IPA^(key): /puːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl

Borrowed from French poule, from Latin pullus, pulla.

poule (plural poules)

1. A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut. [from 1920s]
   • 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 40:

     It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching […] the poules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal.

   • 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 369:

     ‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’

poule (plural poules)

1. (fencing) Alternative form of pool.
2. Obsolete form of pool (in various senses).

• Loupe, Puleo, loupe

From Latin pulla.

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen

• geleigne

• IPA^(key): [ˈpou̯lɛ]

poule

1. masculine singular present transgressive of poulit

Borrowed from French poule.

• IPA^(key): /puːl/

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• Hyphenation: pou‧le

poule m (plural poules)

1. pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)

• IPA^(key): /pul/

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• Rhymes: -ul

Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus.

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)

   Ma poule vient de pondre un œuf.

   My hen has just laid an egg.

2. (slang) chick, bird (woman)

• poulain
• poulet

• → Dutch: poelepetaat (from poule pintade)
• → English: poule

• coq

Uncertain.

poule f (plural poules)

1. (card games) pool
2. pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)

• phase de poule

• → English: pool

• “poule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• loupe, loupé

From Old French poule, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus (“rooster”).

poule f (plural poules)

1. (Jersey) hen

• g'linne

From Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus.

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)

• poulet

• French: poule
  • → English: poule
• ⇒ Old French: polaille, poulaille
  • French: poulaille
    • → Middle English: pullayle
• Norman: poule
• Walloon: poye

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (poule, supplement)

poule f (plural poules)

1. pool stage