{Blue Hen's Chickens} came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
blue hen's chickens — noun plural Usage: usually capitalized B&H&C Etymology: probably from a nickname for a Delaware regiment in the Revolutionary War, known earlier as Caldwell s gamecocks, from blue hen, a kind of hen reputed to breed good gamecocks : delawareans … Useful english dictionary
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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