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Brood vs Frood - What's the difference?

brood | frood |

As a noun brood

is the young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

As a verb brood

is to keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

As an adjective frood is

shrewd; sagacious; wary; cautious.

brood

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
  • * Bible, Luke xiii. 34
    • As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
  • (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
  • The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
  • The children in one family.
  • That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
  • * Chapman
    • Flocks of the airy brood , / (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
  • (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

    • See also

    * flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin * cicada

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
    • In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
  • To protect.
    • Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
  • To dwell upon moodily and at length.
    • He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
  • * Tennyson
    • when with downcast eyes we muse and brood

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    frood

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    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Shrewd; sagacious; wary; cautious.
  • *1973 , Stanley Price, George Ruffhead, Newton-on-Ouse Local History Group, Three Yorkshire villages :
    • To the north of the Airfield the Rabbit Hills still retain heathland vegetation on the sandy soils and are probably the site of the 'frood' warren mentioned in an old survey, being at the time an important source of food.

    References

    * Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary , Frood.