Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A grouse, especially the young bird. See the extract.
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Examples
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This evening luck had deserted his fishing, so the trapper took a rifle and went into the woods after a fool-hen.
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Every man had a gun in his canoe, but ammunition is expensive on the Swan River, and for small fry, musk-rat, duck, fool-hen, or rabbit, they still used the prehistoric bow and arrow.
The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] Hulbert Footner 1911
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No animals in this shot it’s to bad but the frames before i have a fool-hen on her nest. patois says:
qms commented on the word fool-hen
Rob Burns wrote some verse on a louse -
Apostrophized once a wee mouse.
Was I out of school when
We studied his fool-hen
Or has he not honored the grouse?
February 24, 2017