单词 | setting hen |
释义 | setting hen (once / 113648 pages) n WORD FAMILY setting hen: setting hens USAGE EXAMPLESAnd some men eased themselves like setting hens into the nest of death. John Steinbeck, East of Eden(1952) For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours. The New Yorker(Nov 27, 2014) I pulled for town as mad as an old setting hen. Siringo, Chas. A., A Texas Cow Boy—or, fifteen years o...(2011) n a domestic hen ready to brood Syn|Hyper brood hen, broody, broody hen, sitter biddy, hen adult female chicken |
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