Brood vs Queen - What's the difference?

brood | queen |

As a noun brood

is .

As a proper noun queen is

a title given to queens.

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.

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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queen

English

(wikipedia queen)

Noun

(en noun)

A female monarch. Example: (Queen Victoria)

The wife or widow of a king.

(chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

(card games) A playing card with the picture of a queen on its face, the twelfth card in a given suit.

A powerful or forceful female person.

(derogatory, slang) An effeminate male homosexual. See drag queen.

A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.

An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.

Synonyms

* (female monarch) queen regnant * (wife of a king) queen consort

Derived terms

* drag queen * drama queen * ice queen * May Queen / queen of the May * prom queen * queencraft * queenhood * Queenie * queenlike * queenly * Queen of Sheba * Queen's English * queenship * requeen

Verb

To make a queen.

(obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.

(Shakespeare)

(chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.

(BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.

* 2000 , "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance

Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).

* 2007 , Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs

...not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.

* 2012 , Yolanda Celbridge, The Castle of Maldona

She saw his pink tongue flickering on Clare's exposed nympha as she queened him, her love juices shining on his chin and throat