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Definition of Fat hen

1. Noun. European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb.

Definition of Fat hen

1. Noun. ''Aristolochia rotunda'', the smearwort. ¹

2. Noun. (U.K.) ''Chenopodium album'', the white goosefoot. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Fat hen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The girl's own book by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1856)
"THE company sit in a circle, and the play begins by one of the girls saying, " A good fat hen ; " this is repeated by the whole circle in turn, ..."

2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"M., according to Maiden (' Useful Native Plants,' P- 4?i)- Fat-hen, ... 120 : " Boiled salt junk, with fat-hen (a kind of indigenous spinach)." 1881. ..."

3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1895)
"Shrove Tuesday, when, after confession, he is suffered to thresh the fat hen ; 3. Sheep- shearing, with wafers and cakes ; 4. Wake Day, or the vigil of the ..."

4. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes ; a Book of by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1907)
"A Good fat hen A nonsensical game, useful in leading to forfeits. The company sit in a row, and one of the end players begins by saying, “A good fat hen. ..."

5. Potter's American Monthly (1878)
"At a given signal the man with his fat hen danced around, while those with boughs, following the sound of bells, chased after to thrash the hen ; often, ..."

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