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yardfowl
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From yard + fowl. Sense 2 (“political sycophant”) may allude to the tendency of chickens to gather around a person who is feeding them.
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yardfowl (複数形 yardfowl または yardfowls)
- A chicken raised in a yard.
- 1823, [Joseph-Philippe-François] Deleuze, “§ V. Collection of Birds.”, in History and Description of the Royal Museum of Natural History, […] Translated from the French […], Paris: Printed for A. Royer, […], by L[ouis-]T[oussaint] Cellot, […], OCLC 79791319, pages 365–366:
- [2002, David Omowale, A Season of Waiting, Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Publishers, →ISBN, page 11:
- Our mother kept a dozen chickens, two turkeys, a few ducks and a guinea fowl. They were our ‘yard fowls’. She had caused our father to build coops of wood, board and wire-netting for them. We kept the yard fowls cooped up during the planting season each year so they wouldn’t pick the leaves off the young corn.
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- 2007 December 7, Eutille E. Duncan, chapter 1, in In a Fine Castle, Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 5:
- [D]ozens of persons were awaiting the boat in order to load huge hands of ‘green fig’, plantains and mafoubay, baskets of blue dasheen, ‘renter’ yam, yellow yam, cassava and sweet potatoes, parcels of finely ground farine, bags of wet sugar, cages of ‘yard fowl’, tightly tethered hogs, sheep and goats which would be taken to Trinidad to be bought by the Marketing Board and private traders that would be waiting at the docks in Port-of-Spain.
- (Barbados, politics) A political sycophant.
- 1980 November 10, quoting Maurice Bishop, “Adams’ election call angers Bishop”, in The Daily Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica: Gleaner Company, OCLC 12005351, page 5; quoted in Tony Thorndike, “The Political Economy of Independence of the Former Associated States of the Commonwealth Caribbean”, in Paul Sutton, editor, Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean: Continuing Aspects of British and French Domination (Legacies of West Indian Slavery), London: Frank Cass & Co., 2005, →ISBN, page 153:
- [1986, Sanka Price, Jr., editor, Politics Barbados: The Guide to the General Election, 1986, Bridgetown, Barbados: Barbados Labour Party, OCLC 252911074, page 84:
- The peculiar term "Yardfowl" has been with us for nearly 40 years. Its humble beginnings to present day, this apparently indigenous adjective has gone through its own socioeconomic changes. [...] Meant to convey a derogatory, pejorative connotation, "Yardfowl" was given immortality by our Calypso King the Mighty Gabby, when he produced a musical tribute, some years ago highlighting this unique Barbadian expression.]
- 2009, Ronald A. Williams, chapter 6, in Four Saints and an Angel, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 40–41:
- A yardfowl, according to Marjorie's St. Euribian dictionary of standard dialect, is anybody who t'ink dat being able to call de prime minister by he first name is a paycheck. In other words, a total jackass.
- 2015 May 2, “Editorial: ‘Yardfowl’ here to stay”, in The Daily Nation[1], Bridgetown, Barbados: Nation Pub. Co., OCLC 17930691, archived from the original on 18 March 2020:
- The loathsome use of "yardfowl" has really never been meant to describe the average member of any political party in Barbados. [...] So "yardfowls" are generally not the people who will attend the party caucuses or the constituency meetings to ask questions and seek answers. Instead, you would expect those so designated, even by leading members of the political parties, to be the leading hecklers of opponents and to be mindlessly singing the praises of those whom they favour. Their refrain: "Talk yuh talk, I wid you all the way." They represent a unique vociferous brand.
- 2017 November 3, “The 1929 Anti-Corruption Act”, in Barbados Today[2], archived from the original on 18 March 2020:
- I was completely paralyzed by the wealth of idiocy on display this week and the complete intellectual impoverishment taking place in this country. Sadly, there is only one article per week and not every yardfowl is worthy of a decent or printable response.
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