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A small wooden building whose entire security model relies on the fox not knowing the door code.
means A small shelter or coop built to house domestic hens, usually fitted with roosting bars, nesting boxes, and a door shut at night to keep predators out.
from A simple, honest compound: 'hen' (Old English 'henn,' the female fowl, itself related to the Old English word for rooster, 'hana') plus 'house' (Old English 'hus,' shelter). The word has stayed almost unchanged for centuries because the thing it names has needed almost nothing new — hens, houses, and the fox always circling outside, exactly as old as the problem it fails to solve.
- nesting boxes
- hens prefer dark corners, lay eggs communally
- roosting instinct
- hens sleep elevated to dodge ground predators
- idiom warning
- guarding the henhouse means the guard is the threat
- pecking order
- the phrase literally originated watching henhouse hierarchy