Meaning of mother hen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female chicken who bears eggs or chicks.
   literally
2. An outspoken and overprotective woman or person dealing with others' affairs; especially, an assertive matriarch.
   idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Baela sends a letter by raven to her father Daemon spilling all the tea, and the news sends a now-pregnant Rhaenyra into mother-hen mode.”

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