Henned vs Hennaed - What's the difference?
henned | hennaed |
(hen)
(dialectal) To throw.
A female bird.
(specifically ) A female chicken, especially one kept for its eggs.
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (slang) A woman.
(informal) The woman whose impending marriage is being celebrated at a hen night.
Dyed with henna
* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=August 19, author=Grant Pick, title=Where the Action Isn't, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Lambert's hair is sometimes red, sometimes not, but nowadays it is hennaed and often pinned back with a mother-of-pearl comb. }}
As a verb henned
is (hen).As an adjective hennaed is
dyed with henna.henned
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Verb
(head)hen
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) henne, heonne, hinne, from earlier henene, heonenen, henen, from (etyl) heonan, hionan, heonane, . See also (l).Etymology 2
From , or a variant of hench.Verb
(henn)Etymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl) henn, .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen , the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
Derived terms
* henbane * hen harrier * hen party * henpecked * mother henSee also
* * broodyAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----hennaed
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation
