fat hen

British  

noun

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

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fat hen

What did Kitty Mills mean, except insult, by sending her word that she couldn't expect a fat hen to lay the same up hill and down dale.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston

He ate her up In his old den: He ate her up, My own fat hen.

From The First Little Pet Book with Ten Short Stories in Words of Three and Four Letters by Fanny, Aunt

On one of the lower roosts sat a fat hen.

From Bowser the Hound by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)

"My mother killed a fat hen yesterday, sir, and you'll have a lump of bacon and flat dutch along wid it."

From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

Then "Three squawking wild geese, two ducks, and a good fat hen."

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield