hencoop

[ hen-koop, -koop ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

hencoop

/ ˈhɛnˌkuːp /

Origin of hencoop¹

First recorded in 1690–1700; hen + coop

And young Benjamin, confirmed by a nod from his father, departed for the mysteriously feminine hencoop.

From its leafy crest the magpie looks down, meditating another raid upon the hencoop.

Suddenly, just as Jeffreys was about to drive on, Helen uttered a scream, and pointed to a drifting hencoop.

It had some fifteen or twenty thatched cottages, each with its vegetable garden and its beehives, its hencoop and its cowshed.

"Verily, I ache all over," returned the new acquaintance under the hencoop.

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