brooder
Americannoun
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a device or structure for the rearing of young chickens or other birds.
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a person or animal that broods.
noun
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an enclosure or other structure, usually heated, used for rearing young chickens or other fowl
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a person or thing that broods
Etymology
Origin of brooder
Example Sentences
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Only Elordi, variously treated like beefcake and brooder, seems lost trying to square Julius’ early vulnerability with the final act’s hopeful romance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
And she’s not much of a brooder these days, either.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
Stulbarg is an excellent brooder, and Hope Davis vamps it up for whatever Evil Gods to whom she sacrifices incense to get into character as Gina Baxter, the scheming Lady MacBeth to Stuhlbarg's mobster.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2020
Denis Villeneuve, “Arrival”—The Québécois director of “Prisoners” and “Sicario,” Anthony Lane writes, is “both a brooder and a tease.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 23, 2017
Chickens were in the brooder house, and the garden was in and we eded.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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