Poultryman

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. An individual who works in the industry focused on raising or selling domesticated fowl like chicken, turkey, or duck for consumption
2. A person engaged in the agricultural or commercial aspects of breeding and marketing birds primarily kept for their flesh and eggs
3. A professional involved in the farming or trade of domesticated birds such as chickens, turkeys, or ducks for meat and egg production

Etymology: "Poultryman" is a plain compound: "poultry" joined to "-man," the English word for a person who deals with or works at something. "Poultry" itself came into English from Old French "pouletrie," a term for fowl kept as livestock, rooted in "poulet," a young chicken. The "-man" element is one of the oldest and most productive ways English builds words for occupations, as in "fisherman," "craftsman," or "tradesman." Put together, the word names someone whose trade is the flock: raising birds, or moving them to market as meat and eggs. Its meaning has stayed close to the literal, so the compound says exactly what it does.

Synonyms: farmer, breeder, raisers, producer, poultry farmer