hen and chickensn.

Brit.

/ˌhɛn ən(d) ˈtʃɪk(ᵻ)nz/, U.S.

/ˌhɛn ən ˈtʃɪkənz/

Forms:

α. 1600s– hen and chickens.

β. 1700s–1800s hen and chicken (chiefly in attributive use).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hen n.¹, and conj.¹, chicken n.

Etymology: In α. forms < hen n.¹ + and conj.¹ + the plural of chicken n. In β. forms < hen n.¹ + and conj.¹ + chicken n.In some instances (e.g. quot. 1694 at sense 1) translating names in foreign languages with similar literal meanings.

†1. Astronomy. With the. (A name for) the Pleiades, a prominent open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus (see Pleiad n. 1). Obsolete.

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the world > the universe > constellation > star-cluster > [noun] > Pleiades

PleiadOE

seven starsOE

seven sistersc1425

Virgilsc1440

brood-hen1526

hen and chickens1613

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job ix. 9 (note) Some call these seuen starres, the clock henne with hir chekens.]

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xii. 57 That Constellation, called by the vulgar, the Hen and chickens, and of the learned, Pleiades.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. xliii. 165 I swear to you by the Celestial Hen and Chickens [Fr. l'estoille poussiniere] that I found the way of living of the People so strange and wonderfull, that I can't for the hearts Blood of me half tell it you.

1790 C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis V. v. 197 The Indians call this cluster Pillalou-codi, and Cartiguey, signifying the hen and chickens.

1837 T. Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy (ed. 2) xii. 465 The Spaniards call the Pleiades the ‘Seven She-goats’; our own popular name for them is the ‘Hen and Chickens’.

1894 J. E. Gore tr. C. Flammarion Pop. Astron. 557 The Pleiades, or the Hen and Chickens.

a. A variety or form of a flowering plant, esp. the common daisy ( Bellis perennis), in which multiple smaller flower heads grow from the edge of the main flower head. Chiefly as a modifier, esp. in hen and chicken daisy, hen and chickens daisy. Cf. childing adj. 3.

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1717 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening: Pt. 2 vi. 109 The Hen and Chicken Dasy..has little Stalks of Flowers growing out of the main Blossoms.

1794 Bot. Mag. 7 227 In my garden at Lambeth-Marsh, I once had a daisy..which not only became proliferous, or of the hen and chicken kind, but its stalk also..became branched.

1884 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt xviii. 164 The curious compound daisy called Hen-and-chickens.

1891 Gardeners' Chron. 8 Aug. 159/1 Myosotis Victoria. The ‘Hen and Chickens’ Forget-me-Not..is of special interest just now when the question of the inheritance, or otherwise, of malformations is attracting so much attention among scientists.

1905 Garden Mag. Apr. 170/2 The hen-and-chickens daisy is one of the oldest and most interesting freaks in the vegetable kingdom.

2015 telegraph.co.uk (Nexis) 24 May Many plants held in this collection... such as the ‘hens and chickens’ double daisy, with one large flower and several smaller satellites, are rare.

b. Any of various, typically succulent, plants which reproduce vegetatively by means of plantlets; esp. a plant of the genus Sempervivum or (more widely) the family Crassulaceae. Also as a modifier.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > names applied to various plants > [noun]

heatha700

beeworteOE

leversc725

springworteOE

clotec1000

halswortc1000

sengreenc1000

bottle?a1200

bird's-tonguea1300

bloodworta1300

faverolea1300

vetchc1300

pimpernel1378

oniona1398

bird's nest?a1425

adder's grassc1450

cockheada1500

ambrosia1525

fleawort1548

son before the father1552

crow-toe1562

basil1578

bird's-foot1578

bloodroot1578

throatwort1578

phalangium1608

yew1653

chalcedon1664

dittany1676

bleeding heart1691

felon-wort1706

hedgehog1712

land caltrops1727

old man's beard1731

loosestrife1760

Solomon's seal1760

fireweed1764

desert rose1792

star of Bethlehem1793

hen and chickens1794

Aaron's beard1820

felon-grass1824

arrowroot1835

snake-root1856

firebush1858

tick-seed1860

bird's eye1863

burning bush1866

rat-tail1871

lamb's earsa1876

lamb's tongue plant1882

tar-weed1884

Tom Thumb1886

parrotbeak1890

stinkweed1932

1794 J. Abercrombie Gardener's Pocket Jrnl. (ed. 3) 218/2 Sempervivum, globe-bearing, or hen and chicken.

1889 Timehri 3 348 Some of the large leaflets drop off early, and if they fall on damp soil put forth marginal buds, which become perfect little plants long before the leaf has faded; hence it [sc. Bryophyllum calycinum] is sometimes called hen-and-chickens plant.

1957 Fassett's Man. Aquatic Plants (rev. ed.) 239 Most members of this [sc. orpine, or Crassulaceae] family (Stonecrop, Live-forever, Hen and Chickens, etc.) have thick fleshy leaves and grow in dry places.

1992 B. Anderson Portrait of Artist's Wife (1993) x. 169 She fingered the chip on the rim of the terracotta teapot which housed a Hen and Chicken fern.

2013 Canberra Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. a12 Shallow pots are elegant, but you need to choose the plants you put in them with care. Try echeverias for a superior look, or hen and chickens (Sempervivum spp), which will double each year and soon spill out of the bowl.

3. A children's chasing game.In the most widely known version of this game, a number of players take the role of ‘chickens’ and form a line, each holding the clothes of the child in front, behind a player designated the ‘hen’, who leads them as they walk around the remaining player, designated the ‘fox’, while the two of them conduct a set dialogue, on completion of which all players scatter and the fox attempts to catch them. Quot. 2003 appears to denote a slightly different version of the same game.There is also some regional variation as regards the name of the player acting as catcher, who is designated the ‘old woman’ in some versions of the game.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others

buckle-pit1532

marrowbone1533

put-pin?1577

primus secundus1584

fox in the hole1585

haltering of Hick's mare1585

muss1591

pushpin1598

Jack-in-the-box1600

a penny in the forehead1602

buckerels1649

bumdockdousse1653

peck-point1653

toro1660

wheelbarrow1740

thread-needle1751

thrush-a-thrush1766

runaway ring?1790

Gregory1801

pick-point1801

fighting cocks1807

runaway knock1813

tit-tat-toe1818

French and English1820

honeypots1821

roly-poly1821

tickle-tail1821

pottle1822

King of Cantland1825

tip-top-castle1834

tile1837

statue1839

chip stone1843

hen and chickens1843

king of the castle1843

King Caesar1849

rap-jacket1870

old witch1881

tick-tack-toe1884

twos and threes1896

last across (the road)1904

step1909

king of the hill1928

Pooh-sticks1928

trick or treat1928

stare-you-out1932

king of the mountain1933

dab cricket1938

Urkey1938

trick-or-treating1941

seven-up1950

squashed tomato1959

slot-racing1965

Pog1993

knights-

1843 T. S. Millington Moral Tales, Anecd., &c. for Young 253 Hen and chickens. All the players, except one, (the Fox,) form a string, each holding by the sides of the lad before him. The foremost of the line is the Hen, and the game commences with..dialogue between her and the Fox.

1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games xi. 311 It was played..under the names ‘Fox and Chickens’..and ‘Hen and Chickens’.

2003 M. Warner-Lewis Central Afr. in Caribbean 232 Other Jamaican variants [of the game] are ‘Puss and Rat’ and ‘Hen and Chickens’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hen and chickens
释义	hen and chickensn. Brit. /ˌhɛn ən(d) ˈtʃɪk(ᵻ)nz/, U.S. /ˌhɛn ən ˈtʃɪkənz/ Forms: α. 1600s– hen and chickens. β. 1700s–1800s hen and chicken (chiefly in attributive use). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hen n.¹, and conj.¹, chicken n. Etymology: In α. forms < hen n.¹ + and conj.¹ + the plural of chicken n. In β. forms < hen n.¹ + and conj.¹ + chicken n.In some instances (e.g. quot. 1694 at sense 1) translating names in foreign languages with similar literal meanings. †1. Astronomy. With the. (A name for) the Pleiades, a prominent open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus (see Pleiad n. 1). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > star-cluster > [noun] > Pleiades PleiadOE seven starsOE seven sistersc1425 Virgilsc1440 brood-hen1526 hen and chickens1613 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job ix. 9 (note) Some call these seuen starres, the clock henne with hir chekens.] 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xii. 57 That Constellation, called by the vulgar, the Hen and chickens, and of the learned, Pleiades. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. xliii. 165 I swear to you by the Celestial Hen and Chickens [Fr. l'estoille poussiniere] that I found the way of living of the People so strange and wonderfull, that I can't for the hearts Blood of me half tell it you. 1790 C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis V. v. 197 The Indians call this cluster Pillalou-codi, and Cartiguey, signifying the hen and chickens. 1837 T. Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy (ed. 2) xii. 465 The Spaniards call the Pleiades the ‘Seven She-goats’; our own popular name for them is the ‘Hen and Chickens’. 1894 J. E. Gore tr. C. Flammarion Pop. Astron. 557 The Pleiades, or the Hen and Chickens. 2. a. A variety or form of a flowering plant, esp. the common daisy ( Bellis perennis), in which multiple smaller flower heads grow from the edge of the main flower head. Chiefly as a modifier, esp. in hen and chicken daisy, hen and chickens daisy. Cf. childing adj. 3. ΚΠ 1717 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening: Pt. 2 vi. 109 The Hen and Chicken Dasy..has little Stalks of Flowers growing out of the main Blossoms. 1794 Bot. Mag. 7 227 In my garden at Lambeth-Marsh, I once had a daisy..which not only became proliferous, or of the hen and chicken kind, but its stalk also..became branched. 1884 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt xviii. 164 The curious compound daisy called Hen-and-chickens. 1891 Gardeners' Chron. 8 Aug. 159/1 Myosotis Victoria. The ‘Hen and Chickens’ Forget-me-Not..is of special interest just now when the question of the inheritance, or otherwise, of malformations is attracting so much attention among scientists. 1905 Garden Mag. Apr. 170/2 The hen-and-chickens daisy is one of the oldest and most interesting freaks in the vegetable kingdom. 2015 telegraph.co.uk (Nexis) 24 May Many plants held in this collection... such as the ‘hens and chickens’ double daisy, with one large flower and several smaller satellites, are rare. b. Any of various, typically succulent, plants which reproduce vegetatively by means of plantlets; esp. a plant of the genus Sempervivum or (more widely) the family Crassulaceae. Also as a modifier. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > names applied to various plants > [noun] heatha700 beeworteOE leversc725 springworteOE clotec1000 halswortc1000 sengreenc1000 bottle?a1200 bird's-tonguea1300 bloodworta1300 faverolea1300 vetchc1300 pimpernel1378 oniona1398 bird's nest?a1425 adder's grassc1450 cockheada1500 ambrosia1525 fleawort1548 son before the father1552 crow-toe1562 basil1578 bird's-foot1578 bloodroot1578 throatwort1578 phalangium1608 yew1653 chalcedon1664 dittany1676 bleeding heart1691 felon-wort1706 hedgehog1712 land caltrops1727 old man's beard1731 loosestrife1760 Solomon's seal1760 fireweed1764 desert rose1792 star of Bethlehem1793 hen and chickens1794 Aaron's beard1820 felon-grass1824 arrowroot1835 snake-root1856 firebush1858 tick-seed1860 bird's eye1863 burning bush1866 rat-tail1871 lamb's earsa1876 lamb's tongue plant1882 tar-weed1884 Tom Thumb1886 parrotbeak1890 stinkweed1932 1794 J. Abercrombie Gardener's Pocket Jrnl. (ed. 3) 218/2 Sempervivum, globe-bearing, or hen and chicken. 1889 Timehri 3 348 Some of the large leaflets drop off early, and if they fall on damp soil put forth marginal buds, which become perfect little plants long before the leaf has faded; hence it [sc. Bryophyllum calycinum] is sometimes called hen-and-chickens plant. 1957 Fassett's Man. Aquatic Plants (rev. ed.) 239 Most members of this [sc. orpine, or Crassulaceae] family (Stonecrop, Live-forever, Hen and Chickens, etc.) have thick fleshy leaves and grow in dry places. 1992 B. Anderson Portrait of Artist's Wife (1993) x. 169 She fingered the chip on the rim of the terracotta teapot which housed a Hen and Chicken fern. 2013 Canberra Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. a12 Shallow pots are elegant, but you need to choose the plants you put in them with care. Try echeverias for a superior look, or hen and chickens (Sempervivum spp), which will double each year and soon spill out of the bowl. 3. A children's chasing game.In the most widely known version of this game, a number of players take the role of ‘chickens’ and form a line, each holding the clothes of the child in front, behind a player designated the ‘hen’, who leads them as they walk around the remaining player, designated the ‘fox’, while the two of them conduct a set dialogue, on completion of which all players scatter and the fox attempts to catch them. Quot. 2003 appears to denote a slightly different version of the same game.There is also some regional variation as regards the name of the player acting as catcher, who is designated the ‘old woman’ in some versions of the game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others buckle-pit1532 marrowbone1533 put-pin?1577 primus secundus1584 fox in the hole1585 haltering of Hick's mare1585 muss1591 pushpin1598 Jack-in-the-box1600 a penny in the forehead1602 buckerels1649 bumdockdousse1653 peck-point1653 toro1660 wheelbarrow1740 thread-needle1751 thrush-a-thrush1766 runaway ring?1790 Gregory1801 pick-point1801 fighting cocks1807 runaway knock1813 tit-tat-toe1818 French and English1820 honeypots1821 roly-poly1821 tickle-tail1821 pottle1822 King of Cantland1825 tip-top-castle1834 tile1837 statue1839 chip stone1843 hen and chickens1843 king of the castle1843 King Caesar1849 rap-jacket1870 old witch1881 tick-tack-toe1884 twos and threes1896 last across (the road)1904 step1909 king of the hill1928 Pooh-sticks1928 trick or treat1928 stare-you-out1932 king of the mountain1933 dab cricket1938 Urkey1938 trick-or-treating1941 seven-up1950 squashed tomato1959 slot-racing1965 Pog1993 knights- 1843 T. S. Millington Moral Tales, Anecd., &c. for Young 253 Hen and chickens. All the players, except one, (the Fox,) form a string, each holding by the sides of the lad before him. The foremost of the line is the Hen, and the game commences with..dialogue between her and the Fox. 1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games xi. 311 It was played..under the names ‘Fox and Chickens’..and ‘Hen and Chickens’. 2003 M. Warner-Lewis Central Afr. in Caribbean 232 Other Jamaican variants [of the game] are ‘Puss and Rat’ and ‘Hen and Chickens’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1613
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