SkyfireDict

broody   (TTS Sound)

The noun broody has 1 sense

• brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen, sitter -- (a domestic hen ready to brood)

The adj broody has 2 senses

• broody -- (physiologically ready to incubate eggs; "a broody hen")


• brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative -- (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";)