Word Meaning

Meaning of fouls

- A bird.
- Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
- Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
- Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
- Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
- Ugly; homely; poor.
- Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
- Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
- Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
- To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
- To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
- To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
- To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
- To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
- To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
- An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
- See Foul ball, under Foul, a.

Crossword clue for fouls

- Disgusting sound made by chicken
- Fraudulent
- Handball offence
- Loathsome
- Offensive to the senses
- Rule violation in sport
- Smelling bad
- Smelly
- Entangles (anchor)
- Match rules infringements
- Soccer infringements