barnyard fowl
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The New York Mets — after reliever Frank Francisco called the rival Yankees "chickens" — have brought in a live barnyard fowl as a clubhouse pet, so now it's time to give it a name.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2012
Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl."
From Time Magazine Archive
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But it was clear last week that, though the aviation industry might unite in a chorus of protest, its component parts were ready to scramble like barnyard fowl for airmail business.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Secretary of State lisps, and therefore says "Jesus Kwyst!," report Davis & Lindley, whose admiration for Cordell Hull's profanity and cracker-box yarns about mules, shirttails and barnyard fowl is right in the Washington groove.
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A plump barnyard fowl might as well have talked of making allowances for a seagull!
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)