broody
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Titled “The Hungry, Moody, Broody Teens,” the film humorously depicted a group of friends coping with lousy school cafeteria food.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2018
Broody Bates: Even though there’s no secret anymore about why she’s sad, Anna knows things aren’t right between her and Bates.
From Time • Feb. 3, 2014
Broody, vaulting, magisterial, colored in shades of bleakest gray, it is a psychic tomb out of Edgar Allan Poe's haunted imagination.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Broody and complex, it suggests a tune Bacharach might have given Dionne Warwick to sing in an uptown nightclub at 3 a.m.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Broody hens brought from a distance should be carried in a basket, covered over with a cloth.
From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Piper, Hugh