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n. (plural of mother hen English)
Usage examples of "mother hens".
Ever since my Aunt Eulonia was murdered, the two of them have been clucking over me like mother hens.
Marlene and Marjorie had hovered in her space like worried mother hens, primping and fixing it up as the builders vacuumed their way out the door.
The armada, gathered together like chickens in a barnyard, was protected by the mother hens of die fleets hovering in the distance.
Wherever he went, padding around swiftly on bare feet and dressed in a set of white hospital pajamas, the three doctors who made up the ship's experimental staff followed him earnestly, with a variety of instruments at the ready, rather like a trio of mother hens trailing an agitated chicken.
The techs who'd traveled over with him headed towards their charges, spilling around him like nervous chicks gathering under the wings of mother hens.
And some of the older Bakrii women hovered around like mother hens, making sure everyone had enough to eat.
Wherever he went, padding around swiftly on bare feet and dressed in a set of white hospital pajamas, the three doctors who made up the ships experimental staff followed him earnestly, with a variety of instruments at the ready, rather like a trio of mother hens trailing an agitated chicken.
Most burned amber or red-those that weren't entirely dark-but they bent over it like a pair of mother hens and probed delicately for a live neural interface.