[faʊl], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- offensive to the senses, especially through having a disgusting smell or taste or being dirty
(e.g: a foul odour)

- wicked or immoral
(e.g: murder most foul)

- containing or full of noxious matter; polluted
(e.g: foul, swampy water)

- (of the weather) wet and stormy
(e.g: he walked in fair and foul weather)


Phrases:
- foul one's own nest

Origin:
Old English fūl, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse fúll ‘foul’, Dutch vuil ‘dirty’, and German faul ‘rotten, lazy’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pus, Greek puos ‘pus’, and Latin putere ‘to stink’

[faʊl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- (in sport) an unfair or invalid stroke or piece of play, especially one involving interference with an opponent
(e.g: the midfielder was booked for a foul on Ford)

- a disease in the feet of cattle
(e.g: he was indeed suffering from foul of the foot)


Phrases:
- foul one's own nest

Origin:
Old English fūl, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse fúll ‘foul’, Dutch vuil ‘dirty’, and German faul ‘rotten, lazy’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pus, Greek puos ‘pus’, and Latin putere ‘to stink’

[faʊl], (Adverb)

Definitions:
- contrary to the rules; unfairly


Phrases:
- foul one's own nest

Origin:
Old English fūl, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse fúll ‘foul’, Dutch vuil ‘dirty’, and German faul ‘rotten, lazy’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pus, Greek puos ‘pus’, and Latin putere ‘to stink’

[faʊl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- make foul or dirty; pollute
(e.g: factories which fouled the atmosphere)

- (in sport) commit a foul against (an opponent)
(e.g: United claim their keeper was fouled)

- collide with or obstruct
(e.g: the ships became overcrowded and fouled each other)


Phrases:
- foul one's own nest

Origin:
Old English fūl, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse fúll ‘foul’, Dutch vuil ‘dirty’, and German faul ‘rotten, lazy’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pus, Greek puos ‘pus’, and Latin putere ‘to stink’