pullet

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pul=let

CIDE DICTIONARY

pullet, n. [OE. polete, OF. polete, F. poulette, dim. of poule a hen, fr. L. pullus a young animal, a young fowl. See Foal, and cf. Poult, Poultry, Pool stake.].

 A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl.  [1913 Webster]

Pullet sperm, the treadle of an egg. [Obs.] Shak.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pullet, n. a young hen, esp. one less than one year old.

Etymology

ME f. OF poulet dimin. of poule ult. fem. of L pullus chicken

THESAURUS

pullet

Bantam, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, birdling, broiler, brooder, broody hen, calf, capon, catling, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chickling, chicky, cock, cockerel, colt, cub, dogie, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, fawn, fledgling, foal, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hen, hen turkey, kid, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, litter, nest, nestling, partlet, piglet, pigling, polliwog, poulard, poult, poultry, pup, puppy, roaster, rooster, setting hen, shoat, spring chicken, stewing chicken, tadpole, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, weaner, whelp, yeanling

ROGET THESAURUS

pullet

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, 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, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.