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单词 broody
释义
broodybrood‧y /ˈbruːdi/ adjective Examples
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  • After that she said nothing for a while, only sat watching me in a broody way.
  • I was left broody, solemn, sad.
  • Men, under these circumstances, would have no broody gene of their own.
  • Once he put a broody hen on a clutch of eggs and ten little chicks hatched out.
  • She tried to clear them from her mind, but was broody over breakfast.
  • The broody hens were taken and the young pheasants ignored.
  • They're a broody looking fivesome, all dark clothes and darker expressions.
1British English informal wishing that you had a baby:  I get broody when I see baby clothes.2silent because you are thinking or worrying about something:  Damian’s been broody lately.3if a female bird is broody, it wants to lay eggs or to sit on them to make the young birds break outbroodiness noun [uncountable]
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