hen

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /hɛn/    美 /hɛn/|/hɪn/|/hen/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A female chicken (Gallus gallus), especially a sexually mature one kept for her eggs.
    — She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
  2. A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.
    — In Tain, north of Inverness, staff detected 11 males and at least seven hens – the highest number there since 2011.
  3. A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean. uncommon
    — As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.
  4. A woman. figuratively
    — Hen, a woman. A cock and hen club; a club composed of men and women.
  5. A woman.; A bride-to-be, particularly in the context of a hen night. UK,figuratively,informal
  6. A hen night. UK,informal
  7. An affectionate term of address used to women or girls. Scotland,informal
    — Don't cry, hen. Everything will be all right.
  8. The penis of a trans woman.
    — Coordinate term: cock
  9. A henlike person of either sex. derogatory,figuratively,uncommon
  10. The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), a bivalve shellfish.
  11. A large pewter pot used in a tavern. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. Synonym of mother-hen. intransitive,transitive
    — Once he had flared up, "If ever a man was henned, it's me!"
  2. To throw. dialectal
副词 adv.
  1. Hence. dialectal,not-comparable

词形变化

hens plural henne alternative hens present,singular,third-person henning participle,present henned participle,past henned past henne alternative hens present,singular,third-person henning participle,present henned participle,past henned past

词汇关系

近义词
hen-bird bachelorette
衍生词
angry as a wet hen battery hen better an egg today than a hen tomorrow blue hen blue hen-hawk bush-hen chaparral hen cock-and-hen club cock and hen cock-and-hen Cornish game hen Cornish hen daker-hen dakerhen fat hen gorhen grey hen greyhen gray hen guinea-hen guinea hen guinea hen weed hazel hen hazel-hen heath-hen heath hen hen and chicken hen and chicks hen-and-egg hen-balk henbane hen-blindness hen-brained hen-cackle hen-clam hen clam hencoop hen-corn hen-court hen-dam hen do hen-dove hen dove hen-driver hen-feathered henfest hen-fish hen-flesh hen-footed hen-frigate hen-fruit hen-harm hen harrier hen-harrier hen-hawk hen-headed hen-hearted hen hearted hen-heartedness henhood hen-house henhouse hen house henhussy hen-hutch hen-keep hen-killer henless henlike hen-like hen-loft hen louse hen-mould hennery hen night hennish henny hen of grease hen of Guinea hen of the woods henopause hen-party hen party hen-peck henpeck hen peck henpecked hen-pigeon hen pigeon hen-plant henroost hen run hen-run hen's bill hen-scratch hen scratch hen's fruit henshit hen's teeth hens' teeth hen's tooth hensure hensureness hen-tailed hen-toed hen-trough hen up hen weekend hen-wife henwife hen-witted henyard hen-yard jungle hen laying hen like a hen on a hot griddle like a hen with one chick mad as a wet hen mallee hen Maori hen marsh hen miserable as a wet hen moorhen mother hen mother-hen mud hen mudhen newshen Our Lady's hen peahen Pharaoh's hen Port Egmont hen rare as hens' teeth rare as hen's teeth rice hen sage hen sagehen scarce as hen's teeth sea hen sea-hen spruce hen stank hen swamphen tappit hen turkey hen turkey-hen water hen waterhen wild as a wet hen woodhen

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hen, from Old English henn (“hen”), from Proto-West Germanic *hannju, from Proto-Germanic *hanjō (“hen”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan-, *kana- (“to sing”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hanne (“hen”), West Frisian hin (“hen”), Dutch hen (“hen”), German Low German Heen (“hen”), German Henne (“hen”), Danish høne (“hen”), Swedish höna (“hen”), Icelandic hæna (“hen”). Related to Old English hana (“cock, rooster”). Also cognate to Latin cicōnia (“stork”), Latin canō (“to sing”), Russian каню́к (kanjúk, “buzzard”). Compare Russian пету́х (petúx, “rooster, cock”) from Russian петь (petʹ, “to sing”).
Etymology 1, noun sense 7 after cock (“male chicken; man's penis”).
词源 2
From Middle English henne, heonne, hinne, from earlier henene, heonenen, henen, from Old English heonan, hionan, heonane, heonone (“hence, from here, away, from how”), from Proto-Germanic *hina, *hinanō (“from here”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch heen (“away”), German hin (“hence, from here”), Danish hen (“away, further, on”). See also hence.
词源 3
From hen (“hence, away”), or a variant of hench.
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