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Meaning hen meaning

What does hen mean?
Definitions in simple English

hen

A hen is a female bird. That bird is a hen. A hen is a female chicken, usually one kept for its eggs. A hen is a woman.

hen

adult female chicken adult female bird female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing

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Topics hen topics

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Simple sentences

That fox must have killed the hen.
This hen lays an egg almost every day.
The hen sits on her eggs until they hatch.
The hen keeps her brood under her.
That's the meat of a hen.
The hen lays an egg almost every day.
The hen hatched five eggs.
This hen does not lay eggs at all these days.
How many eggs does this hen lay each week?
Many times, a hen-pecked husband doesn't know his problems until he talks to a happy bachelor.
She is like a hen with one chicken.
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
The hen has eight chicks.
If a hen has ten chicks, how many hens does a chick have?
The hen has laid an egg.
Telephone booths are as scarce as hen's teeth around here.
He and his wife both work and his salary is lower than hers, so no wonder he is a hen-pecked husband.
He is a hen-pecked husband.
It is essential to prevent salmonella contamination in hen egg production.
What came first? The egg or the hen?
A critic is a hen that clucks while others are laying.
The supply of game for London is going steadily up. Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life.
Even a black hen lays white eggs.

Movie subtitles

A genuine hen's egg.
An egg, an authentic, genuine hen's egg!
On my ranch I got a little red rooster and a little brown hen. and they fight all the time, too.
Sneak up. Come on, hen. Men.
He's like an old mother hen with his bills and rents and taxes.
Makes good eatin'-wild hen.
I have to hover over all of you like an old hen.
Could I have a little one, just enough to fill a hen's ear?
In October, when you had breast of guinea hen in Madeira that was perfection, Mrs. Lane.
I shall hover around for a while like an old mother hen.
That's a breed of hen.
Latour worshipped him. Guided Paradine's every step like a mother hen.
Look at them up there, looks like a hen roost.
He's got no more sense than a setting hen in a hurricane.
Just a minute, my little hen.
Come on, hen.
I just saw the cook take them from under the hen with his own hands.
Everything is left to me. I have to hover over you like an old hen.
No, I'm a mud hen, a bird, a canary.
She's clucking like a hen.
Shut up, you old hen!
A combless cock so Kate will be my hen.
You sound just like a mother hen looking after a little chick.
From the look of all that egg, that hen must have had a hard time laying it.
We'll squeak up. Sneak up. Come on, hen.
Frank never allows anybody to help him. He's like an old mother hen with his bills and rents and taxes.
T hen Israel out?
In October, when you had breast of guinea hen in Madeira that was perfection, Mrs. Lane. Lucky man, your husband.
Time I was killing a hen for supper.
You're like an old hen, Laidell.
Look at the mother hen with all her chicks!
All right, Will, you old hen.
Come along, you wet hen.
It's a busy hen house!

News and current affairs

A hen's beak is full of nerve tissue - it is, after all, her principal means of relating to her environment - but no anesthetic or analgesic is used to relieve the pain.