mother hen in English

noun
1
a person who sees to the needs of others, especially in a fussy or interfering way.
I am a passionately involved community builder, I'm an activist, I know the importance of the spiritual life to my activism, so I try to work on that, and I'm a bit of a mother hen as well to all the young activists in Perth I think.

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1. Like a mother hen.

2. Suddenly, the mother hen gives a tremulous, high-pitched warning call and spreads her wings.

3. (Matthew 23:37) Jesus here painted a vivid word picture of a mother hen sheltering her young with her wings.

4. Artificial Brooding: In artificial Brooding, a farmer tries to simulate the natural Brooding process by providing everything the mother hen could have provided

5. Courteney Cox as Monica Geller: The mother hen of the group and a chef, known for her perfectionist, bossy, competitive, and obsessive-compulsive nature.

6. “We recorded the sound a mother hen makes when she finds something she wants her chicks to eat,” says Luis Bate of the University of Prince Edward Island.