foul

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The penalty for a foul is a free hit for his opponents GOLF A game played over an extensive piece of ground which is divided into certain arbitrary divisions called holes.

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  1. adjective Offensive to the senses; revolting.
  2. adjective Having an offensive odor; smelly.
  3. adjective Rotten or putrid: foul meat.
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vile ·  filthy ·  horrible ·  ugly ·  treacherous ·  monstrous ·  miserable ·  poisonous ·  hot

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foul:   foulest ·  fouling ·  Foul ·  fouled
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  1. Middle English, from Old English fūl; see pū̆- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English foul, ful, from Anglo-Saxon fūl = Dutch vuil = Old High German fūl, Middle High German vūl, German faul, foul, rotten, lazy, idle, etc., = Icelandic fūll = Swedish Danish ful = Gothic (Moesogothic) fuls, foul: with deriv. suffix -l, from a verb representing by Icelandic past participle fūinn, rotten, Teutonic √*fu = Indo-European √*pu, in L. pus (Greek πύον), pus, putere, stink, putrere, be rotten, Greek πύθειν, make rotten (later ult. English putrid), Lithuanian puti, rot, Sanskrit √pū, stink: see putrid, pus, etc. Hence filth, fulsome (in part), foulmart, etc.
  2. from Middle English foule; from foul, a.
  3. from Middle English foulen, fulen, transitive and intransitive, from Anglo-Saxon fūlian, ā-fūlian, intransitive, become foul, parallel with English file, from Middle English fylen, filen, transitive and intransitive, from Anglo-Saxon fy¯lan (in comp.), make foul (= Low German fūlen= Old High German fūlan, fūlen, transitive, Middle High German vūlen, German faulen, intransitive), from fūl, foul: see foul, a., and cf. file, defile, defoul, and foil.
 

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