WordNet
n. a domestic hen ready to brood [syn: brood hen, broody, setting hen, sitter]
Usage examples of "broody hen".
Since there was no cemetery in Macondo at that time, for no one had died up till then, they kept the bag of bones to wait for a worthy place of burial, and for a long time it got in the way everywhere and would be found where least expected, always with its clucking of a broody hen.
She's the one who's rich, and she don't sit on her money like an old broody hen expecting to hatch it neither!
Hurrying to the chicken coop, he placed an egg under a broody hen.
There's lots of information available that would counter any attempt to make you look like a 'broody hen' possessed of the right pedigree.
She hovers over Leatrice like a broody hen and orders her around like a busybody.
He can smell the shavings in the hen house, feel the smooth warmth of brown eggs gathered from under a broody hen.
Little David squatted on his score like a broody hen on eggs, with his beak wide open, and his neck jerking in and out.
Admiralty and Air Force are watching her like a broody hen over her eggs.
I'm a free woman and healthy as a horse and you can't mother me every minute like a broody hen.