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- verb Present participle of
hen .
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Examples
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And I love how Lucas is totally mother-henning her.
Q & A Nalini Singh 2009
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And I love how Lucas is totally mother-henning her.
Q & A Nalini Singh 2009
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I'm surprised she's not here Mother-henning the lot of you.
Fic: Like Gum on Your Shoe Part 3/10, Adult Eventually, AU from JE rabid1st 2009
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I could feel T.J. sort of hovering¾mother-henning us¾like he might be going to try to cluck us all into one of those love circles.
Amends '82: Part One 2010
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Bush described her as “a very thorough person, constantly mother-henning me.”
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And that may involve a little less mother-henning on the part of the United States, allowing the Iraqis to take a greater hand in forging their future.
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Opponents of the idea are quick to insist that no one is thinking about throwing the Sunnis under a bus, but they do say something has to change diplomatically and politically in Iraq, and that may involve a little less mother henning on the part of the United States, allowing the Iraqis to take a greater hand in forging their future.
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It wasn't because Lauren was mother-henning him to death.
Tanner Ties Moreland, Peggy 2005
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But now that he thought about it, she didn't seem to notice anything except his increasing protectiveness - "mother-henning," she called it.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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But now that he thought about it, she didn't seem to notice anything except his increasing protectiveness - "mother-henning," she called it.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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