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Capon

//ˈkeɪpən// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.

    "[…] You cannot feed capons so."

  2. 2
    castrated male chicken wordnet
  3. 3
    flesh of a castrated male chicken wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To castrate; to make a capon of. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō).

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō).

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