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Adjective(1) (2) physiologically ready to incubate eggs(3) persistently or morbidly thoughtful
Noun(1) a domestic hen ready to brood

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(1) I was tempted to visit to see if there were any tall, broody types in long black overcoats, but with the number of these things which turn up during the year I think I'm getting clown fatigue.(2) New figures show the region has the most broody homosexual couples in Britain - and the highest proportion who want to take part in special u2018weddingu2019 ceremonies.(3) Because, I have looked into a panoramic view of those deep broody eyes a million times over the last few years.(4) The birds are looking distinctly broody , and there's been a pair of over-sexed hedge sparrows doing a bit of heavy courting outside my window all day long.(5) Pitt had also become increasingly broody and even had a nursery built in their Beverly Hills mansion ready for an infant.(6) Regardless of the absence of broody hero Roy and the rest of the boys in Green, you'll find something to tickle your fancy.(7) As ever it is the slow smouldering songs that are most effective, with piano driven u2018The Danceu2019 one of those tumbling broody ballads that nobody does better.(8) There's also the oddly neurotic clucking a broody chicken makes when emerging from her nest to drink, which prompts the other hens to aggressively chase her back to the communal clutch of eggs.(9) He found two dozen eggs that morning and one hen that was broody and wouldn't let him near her nest without threatening to peck him.(10) We were broody and moody together when I was 15, and I still know all the words.(11) Just because I have the accessory of a broody person (someone else's baby, cute as a button), it doesn't, necessarily follow that I'm desperate for one of my own.(12) A hazardous slick of broken eggs caused traffic chaos on Thursday after a truck carrying thousands of broody hens lost its load.(13) Most often it doesn't and he goes all sullen and broody , muttering about fussy neighbours and piling even more garden waste on the smoking heap.(14) The newest addition, a small, 12 year old wire haired terrier, arrived at the behest of my partner who is obviously going through one of those strange broody phases that often occur with women of a certain age.(15) This is because in the mind of the broody , hormone-crazed woman, a deep voice like White's indicates long-term health and higher reproductive success.(16) Those of us who were close to her saw clearly that Madalyn loved and defended her children with the intensity and ferocity of a broody hen and could never understand or recover from the loss of her older son William.