Henned vs Kenned - What's the difference?
henned | kenned |
(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.
(ken)
Knowledge or perception.
Range of sight.
To know, perceive or understand.
To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
* Addison
* Shakespeare
(slang, UK, obsolete) A house, especially a den of thieves.
English irregular verbs
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As verbs the difference between henned and kenned
is that henned is past tense of hen while kenned is past tense of ken.henned
English
Verb
(head)hen
English
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 ----kenned
English
Verb
(head)ken
English
Etymology 1
Northern and Scottish dialects from (etyl) . The noun meaning “range of sight” is a nautical abbreviation of present participle kenning.Noun
(-)Usage notes
In common usage a (fossil word), found only in the phrase .Coordinate terms
* (nautical range of sight) (l)Quotations
* (English Citations of "ken")Verb
- I proposed to the Mariners, that it would be of great benefit in Navigation to make use of [the telescope] upon the round-top of a ship, to discover and kenne Vessels afar off.
- We ken them from afar.''
- 'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gait.