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Definition of Foul

Foul 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. In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like. Related Definitions: Abusive, Act, Advantageous, Air, An, And, Anything, As, Ball, Become, Bird, Boat, Bore, Bottom, Burnt, By, Cable, Cheating, Chimney, Clean, Clear, Clogged, Cloth, Cloudy, Collision, Come, Conflict, Conformed, Containing, Contrary, Cover, Covered, Daub, Defile, Defiled, Detestable, Dirty, Disease, Disgusting, Dishonest, Dishonorable, Done, Entangle, Entangled, Entanglement, Established, Extraneous, Face, Fair, Favorable, Filthy, Firing, Foul, Fouled, Freedom, From, Game, Get, Gun, Games, Hateful, Having, Hit, Homely, Impede, In, Incrust, Injurious, Interfered, Into, Is, It, Language, Like, Loathsome, Make, Matter, May, Mire, Motion, Nasty, Not, Noxious, Obscene, Obstructive, Odious, Of, Offensive, One, Opposed, Or, Other, Out, Overgrown, Paying, Play, Polluted, Poor, Powder, Process, Profane, Race, Rainy, Repeated, Road, Rope, Said, Sailing, Scurrilous, See, Shameful, Ship, Sky, So, Soil, Something, Stormy, Stroke, Test, That, The, To, Two, Ugly, Under, Unfair, Various, Water, Weather, Well, When, Which, While, Wind, With, Wretched

Foul Quotations So foul and fair a day I have not seen. William Shakespeare Every religion there's something foul going on. Ja Rule In fair Weather prepare for foul. Thomas Fuller I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that. Thora Hird One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed. Freddie Mercury

Foul Translations foul in Dutch is vuil, smerig foul in Italian is fangoso foul in Latin is turpis, foedis-e, immundus, immunda foul in Portuguese is sujo

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