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Originally Posted by badatz

Many years ago it was what I described above, and it never really caught on in the way that a half "spring" chicken did in the States.

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The younger generation never remembered the previous usage of the word.

The dictionary still has it right.

The translation of פרגית is pullet, which according to Dictionary.com is "a young hen, less than one year old."

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