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foul (FOUL) (adjective)
1. Rotten, contaminated, or dirty: Sally asked, "Have you ever noticed how badly the foul eggs can smell when they have been around too long?"
2. Unfavorable; contrary to the rules of a competition or sport: Charles has a reputation for being a foul player.
2. Unfavorable; contrary to the rules of a competition or sport: Charles has a reputation for being a foul player.
The player committed a foul play when he tripped the other soccer player.
After Bill was suspended from the football game, he was asked why he committed a foul play so often, in fact at the beginning of just about every new game.
fowl (FOUL) (noun)
Birds collectively; a large edible bird; such as, a chicken, a turkey, a duck, etc.: The Bradley family roasted a fowl for their Thanksgiving meal.
No matter what you say, a stinking chicken is still a foul fowl.
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“foul”
(Latin: offensive, disgusting, foul, loathsome, repulsive)
(Latin: sordidus, dirty, foul, filthy, squalid; dirt, filth; related to sordes, "dirt")
(Latin: dirty, foul, impure; spurcus, spurcitia)
(Latin: disgraceful, depravity, infamy; from turpis, ugly, unsightly, unseemly; disgraceful, shameful, infamous, foul)
(it was originally thought that this disease was caused by foul air or "bad air")
(infectious diseases via the transmission of foul, putrid air)
(Latin: stinking, offensive; spoiled, rotten; foul smelling, disgusting)