Meaning
A chicken of the naked-neck kind, whose neck is bare of feathers — its skin 'peeled' — giving it a distinctive, scrawny look. Peel-neck fowl are a familiar sight scratching about the country yard, hardy in the heat, and valued as good yard fowl for the pot. The vivid name is also used teasingly of a person with a thin, bare, or unfortunate-looking neck.
Examples
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Di peel-neck fowl a scratch inna di yard.
The naked-neck chicken is scratching in the yard.
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Peel-neck fowl mek good yard fowl.
Naked-neck chickens make good yard fowl.
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Him neck long an bare like peel-neck fowl.
His neck is long and bare like a naked-neck chicken.
Origin
From 'peel' (bare) + 'neck' + 'fowl'; the naked-neck chicken. See [[yard-fowl]], [[senseh-fowl]].
How it’s used
A naked-neck chicken; also teasing of a thin bare neck. See [[yard-fowl]], [[senseh-fowl]].