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poule

hen, chicken

noun POOL Less Common

Also means

easy target (slang)

Usage Note

Poule literally means a hen or female chicken. In familiar speech it can also mean a woman (often slightly derogatory, context-dependent) or, in the phrase poule mouillée ('wet hen'), a coward. Chair de poule ('goosebumps', literally 'hen's flesh') is a very common idiom. The male counterpart is coq ('rooster').

Examples

"La poule a pondu un oeuf."

Natural Translation

The hen laid an egg.

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