Definition of Hen

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Definition of Hen
	Hen The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen. Related Definitions: Also, Any, As, Domestic, Female, Fowl, Gray, Grouse, Heath, Hen, Kind, Of, Or, The

Hen Quotations

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Aeschylus

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
Warren E. Burger

It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Hen Translations

hen in Afrikaans is hoender
hen in Dutch is kippevlees, kip
hen in French is poulet, poularde
hen in German is Huhn, Henne
hen in Italian is gallina
hen in Latin is gallina
hen in Portuguese is galinha, frango

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