Noun: garefowl
| Singular | garefowl |
| Plural | garefowls |
Sample Sentences
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The Faroese men were able to catch more than a dozen gare-fowl along with 200 guillemots and numerous gannets, collecting them from rocks which the Icelanders were not brave enough to climb. [2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 81:]
Nouns inflected like garefowl
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Icelandic geirfugl, from Old Norse geirfugl (“great auk”), related to Swedish garfågel, Danish geirfugl, Faroese geirfuglur, gorfuglur, French gorfou. See: Icelandic Nouns '
geirfugl', Old Norse Nouns '
geirfugl', Faroese Nouns '
geirfuglur', French Nouns '
gorfou'.
Verbs referencing "garefowl"
Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
geirfugl, Danish Nouns
gejrfugl.