Capon

Word CAPON
Character 5
Hyphenation ca pon
Pronunciations /ˈkeɪpən/

Definitions and meanings of "Capon"

What do we mean by capon?

A male chicken castrated when young to improve the quality of its flesh for food. noun

A castrated cock; a cock-chicken castrated for the purpose of improving the flesh for table. noun

So called, it is said, because letters were often conveyed inside of fowls. Cf. F. poulet, a fowl, also a love-letter, a billet-doux. A letter. noun

To make a capon of; caponize.

A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. noun

To castrate; to make a capon of. transitive verb

A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table. noun

To castrate; to make a capon of. verb

Flesh of a castrated male chicken noun

Castrated male chicken noun

A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.

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The word "capon" in example sentences

The precipitous banks of red sandstone are richly clothed with vegetation, some of the trees ancient and very fine, especially the magnificent one called the capon tree, and the lofty king of the wood, remnants of the fine forests which at one time had covered the country. ❋ Mary Somerville (1826)

The neutered rooster, called a capon, was also prized for its fat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

_ “Gallinacius/the capon is a gelded cocke/& because ❋ Frederick James Furnivall (1867)

They also house their extra females at these capon ranches. ❋ Hugh Barlow (2011)

I rose to follow him, quickly running my tongue over my teeth to check for any bits of food—I was regretting the peppered capon from this morning. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

I took a bite of capon, but the savory sauce it had been doused in seemed to have lost its flavor. ❋ Kate Emerson (2010)

The "guests", FBC, DIRTY STRAGGLER and whomsoever is available are doing whatever the late capon bourgeoisie do at a gathering for a holidaymaker mealtime: Greeting those they haversack't met in a few monthlies, looking at or taking photographers and unconsciously "consenting to exist" as a Romanian would say. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All those fawning stories, all those bloody headlines, all those wire-service photos of the thick-lipped, jowly, 235-pound Snorky dolled up in outfits that made him look, as a New York reporter once wrote, “like an overstuffed capon”—all of this was very bad for the drys. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)

I go to Tuscany, and cappelletti – pasta knots stuffed with cheese, capon and pork, served in a clear capon broth – come from Emilia-Romagna, where they're a Christmas treat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

May 13th, 2008 10: 09 am ET don't count her out just yet it is still time for this country to wake up and see what is good for them, Janet, capon bridge, WV gastoys ❋ Unknown (2008)

Seven pages long, it includes six rudimentary illustrations and, on page seven, a photograph of a ten-month-old Black Langshan capon that is said to weigh a whopping eleven pounds—proof, I suppose, that the instructions work. ❋ Manny Howard (2010)

But the four paragraphs after that, where I went off like a capon, were taken word-for-word from Glenn Beck. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Loyl Stromberg, the author of a fifty-two-page treatise on caponizing and capon management, is just as discouraging. ❋ Manny Howard (2010)

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