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noun
any of various marsh-inhabiting birds, especially the American coot.
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Origin of mud hen
First recorded in 1800–10
Words nearby mud hen
mud flap,
mud flat,
mudflow,
mud gecko,
mudguard,
mud hen,
mudhole,
mudir,
mudlark,
mudlump,
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How to use mud hen in a sentence
He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
They described him as clad in black, his face smeared with mud.
He even claims that hen partridges conceive just by smelling the scent of males.
“[W]hen the going got tough, his economic team picked Wall Street,” Warren said.
He eventually brings his wife and children over, and later he manages a hen and rabbit farm.
Aunt Ri, at her best estate, had never possessed a room which had the expression of this poor little mud hut of Ramona's.
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.
In some parts of Korea the houses were built of stout timbers, the chinks covered with woven cane and plastered with mud.
The sun was palely shining upon dry, clean pavements and upon roads juicy with black mud.
Frank leaped ashore and pushed the boat off, while Mayne held her by jamming the leeward oar into the mud.
British Dictionary definitions for mud hen
noun
any of various birds that frequent marshes or similar places, esp the coots, rails, etc
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