pullet

Definitions

1. A young hen, especially one less than a year old. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
3. A spineless person; a coward
4. A spineless person; a coward.
   slang
5. A girl or young woman
6. A girl or young woman.
   obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“They died not because the Pullets would not feed⟳: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.”

“The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.”

“he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find⟳ a fat young pullet an easy capture⟳.”

“The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].”

““Mrs. Boast can’t have⟳ got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe⟳ there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have⟳ got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat⟳ friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.” “Yes, and replaced them with pullets that will be layers,” Ma guessed. “It would be Mrs. Boast all over. A more generous woman never lived.””

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