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Blue Hen U.S.
The state of Delaware; chiefly in Blue Hen's chickens (see quot. 1840), Blue Hen State.
1830Mrs. Royall Lett. fr. Alabama 69 He told one of our party he was ‘One of the blue hen's chickens’. 1840Niles' Reg. 9 May 154/3 In the revolutionary war..Captain Caldwell [of Delaware] had a company called by the rest ‘Caldwell's game cocks’, and the regiment after a time in Carolina was nicknamed from this, ‘the blue hen's chickens’ and the ‘blue chickens’... But after they had been distinguished in the south the name of the Blue Hen was applied to the state. 1864Congress. Globe June 2968/2, I remember the early history of the Blue Hen's Chickens and it is a proud one. 1867Trübner's Amer. Lit. Rec. 1 Aug., [Delaware] is popularly known..as The Blue Hen or Diamond State. 1897Congress. Rec. Mar., App. 68/2, [I thank] the gentleman from the ‘Blue Hen State’ for his suggestion. |