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The French word for chicken is
poulet





chicken

Gender

The gender of poulet is masculine. E.g. le poulet.

French Definition


chicken
     1. n. Poule.
     2. n. Poulet.
     3. n. Poule mouillée.
     4. n. (Argot) Froussard.
     5. adj. (Argot) Froussard, lâche, couard.



Translations for chicken and their definitions

poule
     1. n-f. hen (female chicken)
           Ma poule vient de pondre un œuf. - My hen has just laid an egg.
     2. n-f. (slang) chick, bird (woman)
     3. n-f. (cards) pool
     4. n-f. pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)


poulet
     1. n-m. chicken
     2. n-m. (slang) policeman (especially a plain-clothes police detective)
     3. n-m. (obsolete) love letter


poule mouillée
     1. n-f. (informal) milksop, chickenshit, chicken-heart (coward)


poltron
     1. n. coward
     2. adj. cowardly


froussard
     1. adj. (informal) cowardly, chicken


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