Meaning
The pen, cage, or fenced run where a household keeps its chickens — where the fowls roost at night, lay their eggs, and are shut in safe from mongoose, dog, and thief. Keeping a few fowl in the yard for eggs and the pot is common in both country and town, and 'gone to di fowl coop fi egg' is an everyday errand.
Examples
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Shut di fowl inna di coop before night.
Shut the chickens in the coop before night.
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Go look inna di fowl coop fi egg.
Go look in the coop for eggs.
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Mongoose get inna di fowl coop last night.
A mongoose got into the coop last night.
Origin
From 'fowl' + 'coop' (a pen/cage); the chicken pen. See [[feed-fowl]], [[wring-neck]].
How it’s used
The chicken pen/run where fowls roost and lay. See [[wring-neck]], [[mongoose]].