brooder
Americannoun
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a device or structure for the rearing of young chickens or other birds.
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a person or animal that broods.
noun
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an enclosure or other structure, usually heated, used for rearing young chickens or other fowl
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a person or thing that broods
Etymology
Origin of brooder
Example Sentences
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Palmer was golf’s first man of the people — Arnie’s Army — while Hogan had been known as a brooder who kept to himself.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2021
Stulbarg is an excellent brooder, and Hope Davis vamps it up for whatever Evil Gods to whom she sacrifices incense to get into character as Gina Baxter, the scheming Lady MacBeth to Stuhlbarg's mobster.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2020
Harry has a puppet master, a brooder named Campbell, who happens to be a cousin of Cassandra and Allie, as well as a total creep.
From The New Yorker • May 22, 2019
Today’s conventional wisdom regards Bergman as a dour Scandinavian brooder who specializes in the romantic/erotic lives of neurotic characters and the absence of God.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018
Chickens were in the brooder house, and the garden was in and we eded.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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