The word "broody" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a person who is in a pensive or introspective mood, usually for an extended period of time. For example: "He had been broody for days, ever since he heard the news of his friend's death."
He is in no rush to be married and have children, though a much-loved two-year-old cousin makes him feel broody.
Monsters aside, the broody male, he says, might have been a gynandromorph – a quirk of genetics in which the chicken has the "plumbing", and appearance, of both male and female.
The grandfather, once a keeper at Blenheim, who first taught Mr Ward his job, was a "broody-and-coop" man: as late as the 1960s pheasant eggs were put under a broody barnyard fowl, which hatched and tended them in her coop.
In domestic fowl the term "broody hen" refers both to a sitting (incubating) bird and, later, to the same hen brooding her chicks.
In no time at all he becomes broody and morose, a crosspatch and a mope".
Amy's father, Mitch, has previously admitted his daughter is broody, although he's not sure she's ready to settle down just yet.
It's worth remembering, I thought at this point, that when William's mother Diana began to moan about this sort of intrusion, and feel little more than a public property broody mare, she was branded wholly bonkers.
Snow Chick was so small, fluffy and perfectly formed he could have come straight off the shelf at London Zoo's gift shop and scenes of his father successfully wrestling him free from a group of broody, childless females were heartbreaking.
Jamie has been brilliant Kate's daughter Lila, which has made her broody for another child.
Where the character is broody and moody, the actor is chirpy and cheerful.
It is a solemn, broody, expansive vision, a million miles away from the quick, airy delicacy and lightsomeness of some of those artists who were painting London's riverscape at the turn of the 20th century in all her quick and colourful, small-boat-bobbing gaiety –André Derain, Raoul Dufy and others.
