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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.

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Hen Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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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