fool-hen
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A grouse, especially the young bird.
Examples
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This evening luck had deserted his fishing, so the trapper took a rifle and went into the woods after a fool-hen.
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Every man had a gun in his canoe, but ammunition is expensive on the Swan River, and for small fry, musk-rat, duck, fool-hen, or rabbit, they still used the prehistoric bow and arrow.
Note
This name for the grouse is supposedly due to the stupidity of the young birds.
