Usually means: Desiring to have young; moody.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word broody:

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  1. broody: Merriam-Webster
  2. broody: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. broody: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. broody: Collins English Dictionary
  5. broody: Vocabulary.com
  6. Broody, broody: Wordnik
  7. broody: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. broody: Wiktionary
  9. broody: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. broody: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. broody: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Broody, broody: Dictionary.com
  13. Broody: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. broody: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. broody: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. broody: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. broody: Rhymezone
  18. Broody: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. broody: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. broody: FreeDictionary.org
  21. broody: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. broody: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. broody: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. broody: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. broody: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See broodier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of birds: sitting persistently and protectively on a nest, in order to hatch eggs.
adjective:  Of any creature or person: showing an interest in raising young.
adjective:  Brooding, dwelling upon one's thoughts; moody.
adjective:  Gloomy.
noun:  A female bird in the condition to incubate eggs; a broody hen, duck, etc.

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