pullen

From Middle English poleyn, from Old French polain (modern French poulain), from Late Latin pullāmen; compare pullet.

pullen (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) domestic fowl; poultry
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     The palsie plagues my pulses
     when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen
     your culuers take, or matchles make
     your Chanticleare or sullen

2. (obsolete) the meat from a domestic fowl
3. (obsolete) the young of a bird, or, figuratively, human children

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pullen

1. plural of pul