yardfowl

Yardfowl (sense 1) – chickens raised in a yard

Meaning

Noun

A chicken raised in a yard.
A political sycophant.

Origin

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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