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broodiness

[broo-dee] Origin

brood·y

[broo-dee]
adjective, brood·i·er, brood·i·est.
1.
moody; gloomy.
2.
inclined to sit on eggs: a broody hen.

Origin:
1505–15; brood + -y1

brood·i·ness, noun
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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broody (ˈbruːdɪ)
 
adj , broodier, broodiest
1.  moody; meditative; introspective
2.  (of poultry) wishing to sit on or hatch eggs
3.  informal (of a woman) wishing to have a baby of her own
 
'broodiness
 
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broody
1510s, "apt to breed," from brood (q.v.). Figuratively, of persons, from 1851. Also, in modern use, sometimes "full of maternal yearning."
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