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broodybrood‧y /ˈbruːdi/ adjective  - After that she said nothing for a while, only sat watching me in a broody way.
- I was left broody, solemn, sad.
- Men, under these circumstances, would have no broody gene of their own.
- Once he put a broody hen on a clutch of eggs and ten little chicks hatched out.
- She tried to clear them from her mind, but was broody over breakfast.
- The broody hens were taken and the young pheasants ignored.
- They're a broody looking fivesome, all dark clothes and darker expressions.
1British English informal wishing that you had a baby: I get broody when I see baby clothes.2silent because you are thinking or worrying about something: Damian’s been broody lately.3if a female bird is broody, it wants to lay eggs or to sit on them to make the young birds break out—broodiness noun [uncountable] |