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broody::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | brooding, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| Synonyms | brood hen, broody hen, setting hen, sitter |
| Type of | biddy, hen |
broody::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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a broody hen.
Examples of broody
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I left a simple advert, describing myself as a broody, 31-year-old professional.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I'm either getting a bit house broody or I'm ignoring someone, I can't remember.
From the eadt.co.uk
Viet Nam is a dark, broody obsession at the heart of David Rabe's three dramas.
From the time.com
He's moody and broody, so people kept their distance from me during the production.
From the independent.co.uk
The author's broody, metallic style echoes that of Stephen Crane and Joseph Conrad.
From the time.com
The environments are able to look broody without being drenched in darkness.
From the cnn.com
I was never broody or maternal but I wanted a baby with Paul, a part of him.
From the mirror.co.uk
The artist owns his work, and sits glowering over it, like a broody hen on her eggs.
From the guardian.co.uk
McGuane, whose recent novels have seemed a touch broody, enjoys himself with this one.
From the time.com
- Physiologically ready to incubate eggs; "a broody hen"
- Brood hen: a domestic hen ready to brood
- Brooding: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";
- Incubation is the process by which birds hatch their eggs, and to the development of the embryo within the egg. The most vital factor of incubation is the constant temperature required for its development over a specific period. ...
- The instinct controlled by maternal hormones that causes the female to want to set on eggs for hatching and to care for the chickens that hatch.
- When the hen has an urge to sit on her eggs to try and hatch them. (She is broody).
- 1. moody; depressed. 2. clucky; in a maternal condition or frame of mind.
- The tendency of a chicken to have a strong desire to hatch eggs.
