tappit-hen
拔牙
Definitions
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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."