Australian English Meaning of blue hen state

Blue Hen State

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blue hen state ()

The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware.

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Blue Hen State

The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionar

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blue gum => Blue gum, blue green => blue-green, blue grass => Bluegrass, blue grama => Blue grama, blue goose => Blue goose,