foul
Definition of foul:
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part of speech: adjective
Filthy: loathsome: profane: impure: stormy: unfair: running against: entangled.
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part of speech: noun
A bird.
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: adjective
Not clean; offensive; dirty; coarse; disgraceful; rainy or tempestuous- applied to weather; entangled; dangerous.
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
The act of fouling, colliding, or otherwise impeding due motion or progress: specifically, in a racing contest, the impeding of a competitor by collision, jostling, or the like: in baseball, a batted ball which first strikes the ground not a sufficient distance inside one of the lines drawn from the home base to the first and the third bases.
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part of speech: adverb
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Common misspellings:
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- fould (43.4%)
- ful (1.9%)
- fule (3.8%)
- fouth (1.9%)
- faul (35.8%)
- feul (3.8%)
- foult (7.5%)
- focul (1.9%)
Usage examples for foul:
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Do we wonder at his consternation in the prospect of that world's blowing foul on him?
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith" – George Meredith -
You would have thought this would have forever put at an end any foul play, wouldn't you?
"Christopher and the Clockmakers" – Sara Ware Bassett -
There is no harbour for ships to ride in, and in foul weather they will be in danger to be all lost, because they must ride in the open sea, which there is extreme perilous; and therefore Elsinore is not worth the keeping, if England had it.
"A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II." – Bulstrode Whitelocke -
We've had foul play- thank goodness no one here was concerned in that.
"The Willoughby Captains" – Talbot Baines Reed
