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biddynoun(derogatory) A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.

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biddynoun(derogatory) A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.
poultrynounDomestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese) raised for food (meat, eggs, or both).
fowlnounA bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
chicknoun(colloquial) An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.
nestnounA structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
partletnoun(now historical or archaic) A covering for the neck and upper chest, originally worn by both sexes, but later especially by women to cover a low neckline.
broodynounOf birds: sitting persistently and protectively on a nest, in order to hatch eggs.
chickennoun(countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
cluckernoun(colloquial) A chicken.
goosenounAny of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are generally bigger than ducks.
owlnounAny of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes, families Strigidae and Tytonidae, that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing.
broodernounA person who broods.
hatchernounOne who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.
alligatornounEither of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.
apenounA primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
bunnynoun(informal, childish) A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
octopusnoun(countable, loosely) Any of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
eggnoun(countable, zoology) (specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
baconnounCured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
necknoun(anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.

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