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  • adjective Imperfectly hatched.

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Examples

  • It basically sounds like a crazy half-hatched scheme that a group of pissed-up tramps have dreamt up.

    Two Harry Potter Characters To Bite It Soon – JK Rowling 2010

  • I dreamt I came across some half-hatched ducks in the wild, and as I knelt to photograph them, an alligator appeared to chase me away.

    My June 2010 Dream Tweets scottedelman 2010

  • This half-hatched chick flick, which was directed in broad, erratic strokes by Anne Fletcher, asks us to accept Jane's solemn dedication to the institution of marriage, even though the early scenes, staged as flat-out farce, show her chasing like a lunatic between two bridesmaid gigs in different parts of town.

    Latifah Is Rich, 2008

  • This half-hatched chick flick, which was directed in broad, erratic strokes by Anne Fletcher, asks us to accept Jane's solemn dedication to the institution of marriage, even though the early scenes, staged as flat-out farce, show her chasing like a lunatic between two bridesmaid gigs in different parts of town.

    Heigl props up '27 Dresses' 2008

  • From the chicken-coop the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

    Grandmother's Apron 2005

  • From the chicken-coop the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • The condition of the first resembled that which the embarrassed curate described as “good in parts”; but “Mickie” was not nice over a half-hatched egg.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • His half-hatched plan to surprise his captor and overtake him had no chance now.

    The Last Coyote Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1995

  • So Superintendent A.E. Snyder, who was in command at White Horse, where the principal leaders of the plot had, unfortunately for themselves, located, discovered the half-hatched conspiracy.

    Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

  • Now we're like a lot of half-hatched chickens pecking through the shell.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

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