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Broody hen   /brˈudi hɛn/   Listen
Broody hen

noun
1.
A domestic hen ready to brood.  Synonyms: brood hen, broody, setting hen, sitter.






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"Broody hen" Quotes from Famous Books



... search made for what provisions the house afforded, which, in addition to various meats, included some fresh eggs of the elongated shape that produces cockerels when hatched, and had been set aside on that account for putting under the next broody hen. ...
— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy

... or even to wed with no coronet at all. Many of the men were down at Cowes or golfing at St. Andrews; and those unfortunates who were detained in attendance at the house which continued to sit, like a "broody hen," as Howard said, longed and sighed for the coming of the magic 12th of August, before which date they assured themselves the House must rise and so bring about their ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice



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