broodiness

Mr Jarrett believes Andy's broodiness is down to his body being full of hormones at the end of the breeding season.

Sad flamingo tries to hatch stone

For example, several of my best hens, quite untouched by the modern spirit of feminine unrest, have been developing "broodiness" and

The Prairie Wife

There was a time, once, on a grey, dull Sunday afternoon when I glanced out the window and thought about having children but it turned out I was confusing the feeling of broodiness with terrible indigestion.

It's my holiday. No kids allowed – ever!

Kara Tointon has just the right broodiness as the edgy Evelyn, who is like a comic version of the young mother in Edward Bond's Saved.

Absent Friends - review

There was a rap at the front door, and I found myself glad for it, glad for anything to distract me from the broodiness that now filled my kitchen.

Brush of Darkness

That hunka-hunk-of-biting-love version of vampire lore gets a new boost tonight from CW's Vampire Diaries, a TV amalgam of Twilight's teen-angst broodiness, True Blood's humor-spiced chills, and the good boy/bad boy dynamic that is a teen soap's lifeblood.

'Vampire Diaries' stakes its claim in a populated genre

Sometimes I wish I could turn off the broodiness - I melt whenever I see those tiny baby clothes in the shops and I've even bought a few items because I simply couldn't resist.

Tick Tock that Biological Clock - Feministing

The breed is prized for its gentleness and broodiness, and the hens are often used commercially to hatch eggs, especially pheasant eggs.

The Chicken Chronicles

In my reading I learned that broodiness, the desire to set on a clutch of eggs, to become a mother, had almost been bred out of many modern breeds of fowl.

The Chicken Chronicles

As content as I was, the sight of the newly-weds from three graves down eyeing a small adjacent plot - the perfect size for a child's coffin — hand in hand and with tender hope in their eyes had filled me with the first flutterings of broodiness.

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