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pullen Obs. exc. dial.|ˈpʊlɪn|
Forms: α. 4 pullan, 5 -layne, 6 -lain, -lyn, poullayne, 6–7 pulleyn, -e, -lein, -e, -lin, 7 -lyne, poulen, 8 dial. pulling, 6– pullen. β. 5 polayn, 6 -eyn, pol(l)ayne, polleine, -en.
[Origin obscure; app. a. OF. poulain, puleyn, polan (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) young of any animal (:—pop. L. pullān-us, -um, deriv. of pullus young animal), identified in Eng. with poullaille, pullaile, poultry.]
1. Poultry; barn-door or domestic fowls; the flesh of these as food. Also attrib., as pullen market.
α1329Mem. Ripon (Surtees) II. 102, xij pullan prec. 18d. c1450Two Cookery-bks. 67, v. disson pullayn for Gely. xij. dd. to roste. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccciii. 701 Mylke, chese, pulleyn, and other thynges. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 177 Where pullen vse nightly to pearch in the yard. 1591Nashe Prognost. 10 Hennes, Capons, Geese, and other pullin. 1601Holland Pliny I. 220 To mingle hens or pullins dung especially with their meat. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Turkey, They are cur'd in the same manner as Pullen is. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss. s.v., The Pullen market in Newcastle. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. II. 150 I'm not a goin' to hev' my pullen and lambs run'd away wi'.
β1486Bk. St. Albans C ij b, Take whete..and fede hennys or chykynnes therwith, and fede yowre hawke with thessame polayn. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xvi. 18 With right good chepe, as well of pollen, as of other vitailes. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §146 Gyue thy poleyn meate in the mornynge. 1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) H iij b, Diuers vermine destroye corne, kill Polleine.
2. Chickens collectively; young; rarely, a chicken; fig. a child. (Cf. OF. polle girl.)
1631Celestina Prol. A vij, Your craven Kites press upon our Pullen, insulting over them even in our own houses, and offring to take them even from under the hens wings. 1681Grew Musæum i. iv. iii. 73 Whatever they [Puffins] eat in the day, they disgorge a good part of it in the night into the mouths of their Pullen. 1876Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘Thoo little uneasy pullen’, you tiresome child. |