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broody

[broo-dee] / ˈbru di /




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"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All podcast.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025

Lucifer seemed likely to trounce broody hero Dream initially — until he asked, “What kills hope?”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

The pink-hued Warner Bros. movie was pitted against Christopher Nolan’s broody “Oppenheimer” in the cinematic standoff now known as “Barbenheimer.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023

Pregnant at 23, married not long after, she had endured 14 years of bossy, broody cantankerousness from a man to whom marriage was “a tourniquet I didn’t think we could live without.”

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022

“Whatever, Ms. Gifted-in-Everything. I’m going to check it out. Are you coming with, or are you going back to cower with the rest of the broody hens?”

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall