英语词汇“wet hen”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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†P1. In proverbial phrases, as the type of something worthless or insignificant; also more fully pulled hen (see pulled adj. 2). Frequently in negative contexts, as not to give a pulled hen, not worth a hen, etc. Cf. not to care a straw at straw n.¹ 7a. Obsolete.

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c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 177 He yaf noght of that text a pulled hen.

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 6856 I rekke not of pore men Her astate is not worth an hen.

?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 48 That hurtis ȝow nought worth a hen; ȝour husband payis for all.

P2. a hen with one chick (also chicken): used in various similes as the type of someone who is very anxious, overprotective, or easily flustered. Esp. in as busy as a hen with one chick: excessively busy or assiduous, esp. in dealing with small or trivial matters. [In quot. 1592 translating French empêché comme une poule qui n'a qu'un poulet, in a similar sense.]

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > acting fussily

as busy as a hen with one chick1592

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > having care or custody (of) [phrase] > excessively protective or solicitous

as busy as a hen with one chick1592

a hen with one chick (also chicken)1592

1592 G. Delamothe Treasure French Toung 19 in French Alphabeth He is as busie as a henne that hath but one chicken.

1633 J. Shirley Wittie Faire One sig. D3^v A Woman is more troubled with a little businesse, then some man with mannaging the troubles of a whole common wealth, it has beene a prouerbe, as busy as a Hen with one Chickin.

1658 R. Flecknoe Enigmaticall Characters 42 You cannot approach her [sc. a governess], but like a Hen with one Chicken, she clocks and bristles up her feathers presently, keeping such a fidel-fadle and tatling, as you would judge her fitter to teach Parrots talk.

1736 Weekly Misc. 9 Oct. I never was so sensible as now of the Significancy of the Old English Proverb: As busy as a Hen with one Chick.

1856 Yale Literary Mag. Dec. 89 Such men devote their time chiefly to the contemplation of their new found ‘honor’, and become more ‘fussy’ over it than a hen with one chicken.

1945 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 18 Dec. 4/5 Warren watched the bill like a hen with one chick all during its progress through Congress.

2012 Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon) (Nexis) 18 Mar. I was already clucking and fussing like a hen with one chick.

P3. wet hen.

a. Used in similes and comparisons as the type of someone miserable, dejected, pathetic, or bedraggled. Cf. sense 4. [In early use after Italian gallina bagnata a timid, cowardly, or ineffectual person (early 16th cent. in this sense; lit. ‘wet hen’); compare also French poule mouillée (1658 in a similar sense).]

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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Gallina bagnata A wet hen, id est, a milkesop, or freshwater souldier, or one that lookes like a drownd rat.

1660 P. Paravicino True Idioma Ital. Tongue sig. A7 Your brother has no wit, he is a wet henne [It. gallina bagnata].

1704 I. Sharpe Plain-dealing 37 Out upon you for a dastardly Fellow; you han't the Courage of a wet Hen.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. xlvi. 128 The right honorable peer, to use a very homely, but expressive country phrase, looked as sad as a wet hen.

1917 A. G. Empey Over Top xvi. 124 I couldn't see his face, but the droop in his shoulders was enough. He looked like a wet hen.

1957 Threshold Winter 18 I began to feel as miserable as a wet hen.

2008 S. Lloyd Carbon Diaries: 2015 61 Anyway, it sure beats moping around here like a wet hen.

b. Used in similes and comparisons as a type of someone who is angry, outraged, or agitated. Esp. in (as) mad (also angry) as a wet hen: very angry.

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1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. iv. 8 As wanton as a wet Hen.

1823 J. Doddridge Logan 42 Every body that was not ax'd was mad as a wet hen.

1907 Amer. Mag. Feb. 339/1 He just looked at me and then flounced out, mad as a wet hen.

1969 Black Belt Dec. 38/1 Bloody and angry as a wet hen, Dickinson threw a fast roundhouse kick.

2018 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 3 Apr. It is dark, it is dank, it is cold, nothing spring like now or in the future. I am angry, fussy, as mad as a wet hen.

P4. hen-and-(the)-egg: used as a modifier, designating the apparent paradox posed by the question ‘Which came first: the hen or the egg?’ (cf. quot. 1603), expressing the problem of determining which of two entities or events should be considered the cause and which the effect when each appears to depend on the prior existence of the other. Frequently in hen-and-egg argument, hen-and-egg dilemma, hen-and-egg problem.Cf. chicken-and-(the-)egg at chicken n. Phrases 4, and see the note there for discussion of the history of this problem.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > [phrase] > chicken-and-the-egg

hen-and-egg1855

chicken-and-(the-)egg1857

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [adjective] > incapable of being solved

insoluble1393

unresolvable1604

inextricable1613

indissolvable1637

unriddleable1647

irresolvable1660

unsolvible1664

insolvable1693

unsolvable1821

hen-and-egg1855

indissoluble1868

irresoluble1868

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 670 With this little question of the henne and the egge..we shaked the great frame and weightie fabricke of the generation of the whole world.]

1855 Boston Investigator 21 Mar. A solution a priori, one way or the other, is perfectly impossible. Like the hen and egg argument, yours can be reversed, and made to serve the purpose of its own refutation.

1931 A. L. Rowse Politics & Younger Generation 146 It is the old hen-and-egg argument, that there is no knowing which comes first.

1951 W. Empson Struct. Complex Words 436 But firstly, there is a typical hen-and-egg problem.

a1963 L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) ii. 39 The old hen-and-egg dilemma (did god or planet come first?).

2009 Mass Transit (Nexis) Dec. 20 It was kind of a hen and egg problem with looking for the first real project and establishing a local office.

†P5. hen of the game: a female prostitute. Obsolete.With allusion to and play on cock of the game at cock n.¹ and int. Phrases 2b(a) and game n. 4.

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a1625 J. Fletcher Chances iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 16/2 What should our hen o'th game else Do here without her?

1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xxx. 109 I ever hated that a Dunghill-Cock should tread a Hen of the Game.

1706 Observator 16 Oct. There is a notorious Hen of the Game in Kent, that goes by the Name of Cock-Wickam.

1896 L. C. Cornford Capt. Jacobus ix. 129 Here is a kingdom set upon the hazard, and you think of nought but springing a hen o' the game.

†P6. hen of Guinea: a guineafowl (family Numididae). Obsolete.

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1538 T. Elyot Dict. Meleagrides, byrdes, whiche we doo calle hennes of Genny.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 26/1 They are thought to be Hens of Guinny.

1734 A. Pope Satires of Horace ii. ii. 20 Yet Hens of Guinea full as good I hold [as pheasant], Except you eat the feathers, green and gold.

P7. hen of the wood also woods: (a) (the female of) any of several forest-dwelling gallinaceous birds; esp. the female capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus; cf. cock of the woods at cock n.¹ and int. Phrases 1c(b); (b) a large edible polypore fungus, Grifola frondosa, found as a bracket fungus on decaying timber and credited with immune-stimulating and other health-promoting properties (also called maitake).

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1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ i. Pl. XXX (caption) Vrogallus fœmina. The Hen of y^e wood or mountain.

1783 W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 98 The..domestic hen (ayam), some with black bones, and some of the sort we call Freezeland or negro fowls; hen of the woods (ayam baroogo).

1836 Derby Mercury 30 Nov. A black Cock and Hen of the Woods (a bird now extinct in Great Britain,)..were sent.

1875 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 2 Oct. 238/2 In the Vosges districts it [sc. Polyporus frondosus] is called, from its brown speckled appearance, the ‘Hen of the Woods’ (poule de bois) and ‘breeding hen’ (couveuse).

1946 H. M. Hall Ruffed Grouse iv. 14 The ruffed grouse is the hen of the woods.

1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 306 One day he pointed out to me the ugly fungi that grow like monstrous tan brains on the lawn. He said, ‘Those are called hen-of-the-woods. They grow only in association with oak trees.’

2010 Independent 26 May 50/2 Recently people have started to ask about maitake mushrooms, which we call hen of the woods.

P8. U.S. to have (also get) a hen on: to have a clandestine plot or plan in development. Similarly there is a hen on: there is a plot afoot. Now rare.With reference to a nesting hen bringing her eggs to the point of hatching; cf. hatch v.¹ 5.

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1872 Portland (Indiana) Democrat 5 Sept. Go slow Marsby, there's a hen on.

1902 R. H. Tatlow & J. D. Crisp Orpah xx. 255 Nell's got a hen on now, but I'll not count any chickens until I hear the clink of the sure enough old yellow boys.

1921 P. B. Kyne Pride of Palomar xxx. 327 ‘He has a hen on.’ ‘Yes, and that hen will hatch a young bald-headed eagle to scratch your eyes out.’

1937 F. N. Litten Treasure Bayou xxiv. 194 Tully—you know, that lease hound from Beaumont—he's been hangin' round lately. He thinks there's a hen on.

1950 L. Floren Burnt Wagon Ranch xiii. 165 You two got a hen on?

单词	wet hen
释义	> as lemmas wet hen Phrases †P1. In proverbial phrases, as the type of something worthless or insignificant; also more fully pulled hen (see pulled adj. 2). Frequently in negative contexts, as not to give a pulled hen, not worth a hen, etc. Cf. not to care a straw at straw n.¹ 7a. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 177 He yaf noght of that text a pulled hen. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 6856 I rekke not of pore men Her astate is not worth an hen. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 48 That hurtis ȝow nought worth a hen; ȝour husband payis for all. P2. a hen with one chick (also chicken): used in various similes as the type of someone who is very anxious, overprotective, or easily flustered. Esp. in as busy as a hen with one chick: excessively busy or assiduous, esp. in dealing with small or trivial matters. [In quot. 1592 translating French empêché comme une poule qui n'a qu'un poulet, in a similar sense.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > acting fussily as busy as a hen with one chick1592 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > having care or custody (of) [phrase] > excessively protective or solicitous as busy as a hen with one chick1592 a hen with one chick (also chicken)1592 1592 G. Delamothe Treasure French Toung 19 in French Alphabeth He is as busie as a henne that hath but one chicken. 1633 J. Shirley Wittie Faire One sig. D3^v A Woman is more troubled with a little businesse, then some man with mannaging the troubles of a whole common wealth, it has beene a prouerbe, as busy as a Hen with one Chickin. 1658 R. Flecknoe Enigmaticall Characters 42 You cannot approach her [sc. a governess], but like a Hen with one Chicken, she clocks and bristles up her feathers presently, keeping such a fidel-fadle and tatling, as you would judge her fitter to teach Parrots talk. 1736 Weekly Misc. 9 Oct. I never was so sensible as now of the Significancy of the Old English Proverb: As busy as a Hen with one Chick. 1856 Yale Literary Mag. Dec. 89 Such men devote their time chiefly to the contemplation of their new found ‘honor’, and become more ‘fussy’ over it than a hen with one chicken. 1945 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 18 Dec. 4/5 Warren watched the bill like a hen with one chick all during its progress through Congress. 2012 Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon) (Nexis) 18 Mar. I was already clucking and fussing like a hen with one chick. P3. wet hen. a. Used in similes and comparisons as the type of someone miserable, dejected, pathetic, or bedraggled. Cf. sense 4. [In early use after Italian gallina bagnata a timid, cowardly, or ineffectual person (early 16th cent. in this sense; lit. ‘wet hen’); compare also French poule mouillée (1658 in a similar sense).] ΚΠ 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Gallina bagnata A wet hen, id est, a milkesop, or freshwater souldier, or one that lookes like a drownd rat. 1660 P. Paravicino True Idioma Ital. Tongue sig. A7 Your brother has no wit, he is a wet henne [It. gallina bagnata]. 1704 I. Sharpe Plain-dealing 37 Out upon you for a dastardly Fellow; you han't the Courage of a wet Hen. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. xlvi. 128 The right honorable peer, to use a very homely, but expressive country phrase, looked as sad as a wet hen. 1917 A. G. Empey Over Top xvi. 124 I couldn't see his face, but the droop in his shoulders was enough. He looked like a wet hen. 1957 Threshold Winter 18 I began to feel as miserable as a wet hen. 2008 S. Lloyd Carbon Diaries: 2015 61 Anyway, it sure beats moping around here like a wet hen. b. Used in similes and comparisons as a type of someone who is angry, outraged, or agitated. Esp. in (as) mad (also angry) as a wet hen: very angry. ΚΠ 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. iv. 8 As wanton as a wet Hen. 1823 J. Doddridge Logan 42 Every body that was not ax'd was mad as a wet hen. 1907 Amer. Mag. Feb. 339/1 He just looked at me and then flounced out, mad as a wet hen. 1969 Black Belt Dec. 38/1 Bloody and angry as a wet hen, Dickinson threw a fast roundhouse kick. 2018 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 3 Apr. It is dark, it is dank, it is cold, nothing spring like now or in the future. I am angry, fussy, as mad as a wet hen. P4. hen-and-(the)-egg: used as a modifier, designating the apparent paradox posed by the question ‘Which came first: the hen or the egg?’ (cf. quot. 1603), expressing the problem of determining which of two entities or events should be considered the cause and which the effect when each appears to depend on the prior existence of the other. Frequently in hen-and-egg argument, hen-and-egg dilemma, hen-and-egg problem.Cf. chicken-and-(the-)egg at chicken n. Phrases 4, and see the note there for discussion of the history of this problem. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [phrase] > chicken-and-the-egg hen-and-egg1855 chicken-and-(the-)egg1857 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [adjective] > incapable of being solved insoluble1393 unresolvable1604 inextricable1613 indissolvable1637 unriddleable1647 irresolvable1660 unsolvible1664 insolvable1693 unsolvable1821 hen-and-egg1855 indissoluble1868 irresoluble1868 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 670 With this little question of the henne and the egge..we shaked the great frame and weightie fabricke of the generation of the whole world.] 1855 Boston Investigator 21 Mar. A solution a priori, one way or the other, is perfectly impossible. Like the hen and egg argument, yours can be reversed, and made to serve the purpose of its own refutation. 1931 A. L. Rowse Politics & Younger Generation 146 It is the old hen-and-egg argument, that there is no knowing which comes first. 1951 W. Empson Struct. Complex Words 436 But firstly, there is a typical hen-and-egg problem. a1963 L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) ii. 39 The old hen-and-egg dilemma (did god or planet come first?). 2009 Mass Transit (Nexis) Dec. 20 It was kind of a hen and egg problem with looking for the first real project and establishing a local office. †P5. hen of the game: a female prostitute. Obsolete.With allusion to and play on cock of the game at cock n.¹ and int. Phrases 2b(a) and game n. 4. ΚΠ a1625 J. Fletcher Chances iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 16/2 What should our hen o'th game else Do here without her? 1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xxx. 109 I ever hated that a Dunghill-Cock should tread a Hen of the Game. 1706 Observator 16 Oct. There is a notorious Hen of the Game in Kent, that goes by the Name of Cock-Wickam. 1896 L. C. Cornford Capt. Jacobus ix. 129 Here is a kingdom set upon the hazard, and you think of nought but springing a hen o' the game. †P6. hen of Guinea: a guineafowl (family Numididae). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Meleagrides, byrdes, whiche we doo calle hennes of Genny. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 26/1 They are thought to be Hens of Guinny. 1734 A. Pope Satires of Horace ii. ii. 20 Yet Hens of Guinea full as good I hold [as pheasant], Except you eat the feathers, green and gold. P7. hen of the wood also woods: (a) (the female of) any of several forest-dwelling gallinaceous birds; esp. the female capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus; cf. cock of the woods at cock n.¹ and int. Phrases 1c(b); (b) a large edible polypore fungus, Grifola frondosa, found as a bracket fungus on decaying timber and credited with immune-stimulating and other health-promoting properties (also called maitake). ΚΠ 1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ i. Pl. XXX (caption) Vrogallus fœmina. The Hen of y^e wood or mountain. 1783 W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 98 The..domestic hen (ayam), some with black bones, and some of the sort we call Freezeland or negro fowls; hen of the woods (ayam baroogo). 1836 Derby Mercury 30 Nov. A black Cock and Hen of the Woods (a bird now extinct in Great Britain,)..were sent. 1875 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 2 Oct. 238/2 In the Vosges districts it [sc. Polyporus frondosus] is called, from its brown speckled appearance, the ‘Hen of the Woods’ (poule de bois) and ‘breeding hen’ (couveuse). 1946 H. M. Hall Ruffed Grouse iv. 14 The ruffed grouse is the hen of the woods. 1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 306 One day he pointed out to me the ugly fungi that grow like monstrous tan brains on the lawn. He said, ‘Those are called hen-of-the-woods. They grow only in association with oak trees.’ 2010 Independent 26 May 50/2 Recently people have started to ask about maitake mushrooms, which we call hen of the woods. P8. U.S. to have (also get) a hen on: to have a clandestine plot or plan in development. Similarly there is a hen on: there is a plot afoot. Now rare.With reference to a nesting hen bringing her eggs to the point of hatching; cf. hatch v.¹ 5. ΚΠ 1872 Portland (Indiana) Democrat 5 Sept. Go slow Marsby, there's a hen on. 1902 R. H. Tatlow & J. D. Crisp Orpah xx. 255 Nell's got a hen on now, but I'll not count any chickens until I hear the clink of the sure enough old yellow boys. 1921 P. B. Kyne Pride of Palomar xxx. 327 ‘He has a hen on.’ ‘Yes, and that hen will hatch a young bald-headed eagle to scratch your eyes out.’ 1937 F. N. Litten Treasure Bayou xxiv. 194 Tully—you know, that lease hound from Beaumont—he's been hangin' round lately. He thinks there's a hen on. 1950 L. Floren Burnt Wagon Ranch xiii. 165 You two got a hen on? extracted from henn.¹ < as lemmas
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