henny

American  

[hen-ee] / ˈhɛn i /

adjective

1. (of a rooster) resembling a hen, especially in plumage.

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henny

E ez is chawce of henny flegstown agin thet wall.

From Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Bernard Shaw

Breakfast-time at Dr Rumsey’s, and Mrs Rumsey, in a very henny state, clucking over her brood, for whom she was cutting bread and butter.

From The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn

The Yorkshire breed, which had been a favourite in that county for many years, produced henny cocks—i.e. cocks with plumage resembling that of a hen.

From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Hugh Piper

"Not thinkin' you'd mind, Sir," says Cubbins; "but if there's henny hoffense given, I asks pardon, Sir."

From On With Torchy by Foster Lincoln

Dorothy now heard the yellow hen laughing, in her cackling, henny way.

From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum