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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Immediately everybody shuns him because ferrets are believed to massacre barnyard fowl.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I prefer the lesser poets to the greater, the cackle of the barnyard fowl to the scream of the eagle.
From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
