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fat hen

noun

  1. Also called (US): pigweed lamb's-quartersa common plant, Chenopodium album , with small green flowers and whitish scales on the stem and leaves: family Chenopodiaceae (chenopods)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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For main course, fat hen pesto bake, with more fat hen as a side dish, washed down with sparkling elderflower wine.

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“Thanks to Gott you survived. But you are so thin, liebchen. You look just like your mother, she works so hard. Here, two fat hens for you and your family. And have some eggs.”

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Here be hams, marrow bones, pies of herons, ortolans, fat hens, as for great lords!

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I wad gie the price o' sax fat hens to see her.

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He installed two other very fat hens in their place on the perch, and then crowed more loudly than ever.

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