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tappit-hen

/tap-it-hen/US // ˈtæp ɪtˌhɛn //UK // (ˈtæpɪtˈhɛn) //

拔牙

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Scot.

    • : a hen with a crest or topknot.
    • : a tankard, especially a large one, with a knob or ornament projecting from the top of its lid.

Examples

  • 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."