Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young domestic hen, usually one that is less than one year old.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young hen.
- noun A bivalve, Tapes pullastra, of the family Veneridæ, abundant in European seas, chiefly in muddy sand or sandy bottoms near tide-mark.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl.
- noun [Obs.] the treadle of an egg.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
young hen , especially one less than ayear old. - noun slang A
spineless person; acoward .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying
- noun young hen usually less than a year old
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Why Clay, I thought you knew a pullet is a bullet that has been pulled and can be reused.
Stupid Moves 2009
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Why Clay, I thought you knew a pullet is a bullet that has been pulled and can be reused.
Stupid Moves 2009
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For those of you who don't know, a pullet is a young hen, not even a year old.
Archive 2007-08-01 Gumbo Lily 2007
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For those of you who don't know, a pullet is a young hen, not even a year old.
Pullet Eggs Gumbo Lily 2007
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Some translations are trickier, like describing pullet, which is a hen less than a year old but appears on some menus as Sexually Inexperienced Chicken.
Archive 2007-04-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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There was one unofficial poll taken by the Staley Milling Company in -- in Kansas, which had these things called pullet adams, which were a feed for -- for livestock.
The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election 2000
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It does not mean by this that a scrawny pullet is of more importance than family honor; it simply means that the man who steals a pullet is a cowardly thief, while the one who ignores the advances of a pretty woman is an incorrigible idiot.
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Next up for fans of beautiful creatures today, we have Dorcas the Silver Dorking pullet (a pullet is the term used for a young hen not yet in lay).
British Blogs 2009
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Next up for fans of beautiful creatures today, we have Dorcas the Silver Dorking pullet (a pullet is the term used for a young hen not yet in lay).
British Blogs 2009
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At first, they lay what are called pullet eggs, which are very small.
Signs of the Times 2009
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From "Haile Selassie Funeral Train" by Guy Davenport.
January 19, 2010