guinea hen

How to use guinea hen in a sentence

• The roasting of the guinea hen would require thirty minutes the waiter warned them, but Bassett made no objection.

  A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson

• It was a clear, bright night; locating the guinea-hen, he slipped up stealthily with a stout stick.

  Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine

• Later in the day Clemens gave orders to Lewis to "kill and eat that guinea-hen," which Lewis did.

  Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine

• The cook cackles, like the guinea-hen that she is, but the dishes are none the worse for the commendation.

  The Fat of the Land | John Williams Streeter

• The male guinea fowl is called a guinea cock; the female, a guinea hen; the young, guinea chickens.

  Our Domestic Birds | John H. Robinson