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Ullet vs Pullet - What's the difference?

ullet | pullet |

As nouns the difference between ullet and pullet

is that ullet is a European owl, Syrnium aluco, of a tawny color; the uluia while pullet is a young hen, especially one less than a year old.

ullet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology) A European owl, Syrnium aluco , of a tawny color; the uluia.
    • (Webster 1913)

    pullet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.11:
    • They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
  • * 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 588:
    • The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet , the squire himself [...] attending the door.
  • * 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 187:
    • he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
  • *1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 195:
  • *:The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].
  • (slang) A spineless person; a coward.