hen 的定义
- a female chicken: Our hens only recently started laying, but these fresh eggs were worth the wait!
- the female of any bird, especially a gallinaceous bird: The mallard drakes are splendidly colorful while the hens are camouflaged in drab plumage.
- the female of certain marine creatures, including lobsters and salmon: I prefer a hen when making lobster bisque, as the dark red roe enhances both flavor and color.
- Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a usually middle-aged or older woman, especially one who is considered to be petty or gossipy: Let’s get out of here and leave the hens to their blather.
- Informal. a female in attendance at a hen party: The incident at the restaurant occurred hours after our party was over and we’d all gone home, but all of us hens were brought in for questioning the next morning.
- British and Australian Informal. the bride-to-be at a bachelorette party: A toast to Vera, the beautiful hen, who’s flying our coop in less than a fortnight!
- Scots Informal. an affectionate or familiar term of address to a girl or woman: That’s lovely, hen, thank you.
hen 近义词
等同于 fowl
等同于 poultry
等同于 chicken
更多hen例句
- All the eggs produced by hens sexed with this technology are sold under the Respeggt brand, free from chick culling.
- That is not the case with egg-laying hens, which have been bred to put all their energy toward laying.
- In chickens, the hen controls whether the resulting chick is male or female.
- File this under, “Sure, I’ll watch your hens,” said the fox.
- You can look at the number of hens laying eggs in this country.
- He even claims that hen partridges conceive just by smelling the scent of males.
- “[W]hen the going got tough, his economic team picked Wall Street,” Warren said.
- He eventually brings his wife and children over, and later he manages a hen and rabbit farm.
- He described her then as “a mother hen who took care of everyone.”
- “[W]hen a novelist finds an audience, even a small one … the relation is based on recognition, not misunderstanding,” he writes.
- Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead.
- What can be prettier than a brood of chickens with a good motherly hen, like the one in this picture!
- “Well, Hen knows how to kill snakes, but maybe she is a poor judge of character,” laughed Amy.
- The storm hath passed;I hear the birds rejoice; the hen,Returned into the road again,Her cheerful notes repeats.
- Their manner of talking has been compared to the clucking of a hen, and by the Dutch to the "gobbling of a turkeycock."