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Meaning of broody

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  broody
      adj 1: physiologically ready to incubate eggs; "a broody hen"
      2: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in
         his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' -
         the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn:
         {brooding}, {broody}, {contemplative}, {meditative},
         {musing}, {pensive}, {pondering}, {reflective}, {ruminative}]
      n 1: a domestic hen ready to brood [syn: {brood hen}, {broody},
           {broody hen}, {setting hen}, {sitter}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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