English

Adjective

foule ‎(comparative more foule, superlative most foule)

1. Obsolete form of foul.
   • 1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I:

     The Patron of true Holinesse
      foule Errour doth defeate;
     Hypocrisie him to entrappe
      doth to his home entreate.‎

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ful/
• Rhymes: -ul
• Homophones: foulent, foules

Etymology 1

From Middle French foule ‎(“group of men, people collectively”), alteration (due to Middle French foule ‎(“act of treading”)) of Old French foulc ‎(“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Vulgar Latin, from Frankish *folc, *fulc ‎(“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulką ‎(“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pelə- ‎(“to fill”). Cognate with Old High German folc ‎(“people collectively, nation”), Old English folc ‎(“common people, troop, multitude”). More at folk.

Noun

foule f ‎(plural foules)

1. crowd
2. the thronging of a crowd
3. a great number, multitude, mass; host

Etymology 2

From Middle French foule ‎(“the act of milling clothes or hats”) and fouler ‎(“to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat”), from Old French foler ‎(“to crush, act wickedly”), from Latin fullō ‎(“I trample, I full”). More at full.

Noun

foule f ‎(plural foules)

1. the act or process of treading or milling
2. oppression, vexation

Verb

foule

1. first-person singular present indicative of fouler
2. third-person singular present indicative of fouler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fouler
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of fouler
5. second-person singular imperative of fouler

Anagrams

• floue

German

Verb

foule

1. First-person singular present of foulen.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of foulen.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of foulen.
4. Imperative singular of foulen.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French foulc ‎(“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Vulgar Latin, from Frankish *folc, *fulc ‎(“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulką ‎(“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pelə- ‎(“to fill”).

Noun

foule f ‎(plural foules)

1. (Jersey) crowd

Synonyms

• fliotchet