hen do

[ hen-doo ]

/ ˈhɛn ˌdu /

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noun British, Australian Informal.

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Origin of hen do

First recorded in 1995–2000; hen + do¹ (in the informal sense “festive social gathering”)

When they thought about Lewis, what struck the players most was that he never acted like a do-gooder.
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He even claims that hen partridges conceive just by smelling the scent of males.
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First on the to-do list, the profiling exercises to help the Western masses understand the nature of the wretched beast.
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“[W]hen the going got tough, his economic team picked Wall Street,” Warren said.
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He eventually brings his wife and children over, and later he manages a hen and rabbit farm.
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The ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
With time this land had mounted to great values and the holders had been made well-to-do thereby.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
His parents were of the well-to-do farming class, occupied from one year's end to the other with the work of the fields.
Bastien Lepage|Fr. Crastre
What can be prettier than a brood of chickens with a good motherly hen, like the one in this picture!
The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1|Various