"mother-hen" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mother-hens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mother-henning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mother-henned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mother-henned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "mother-hen (third-person singular simple present mother-hens, present participle mother-henning, simple past and past participle mother-henned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Renon Klossner Hulet, Don't You Dare Give Up, page 201:",
          "text": "Concerned for Diane's well-being, he mother-henned her constantly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Patricia Rice, Rebel Girl:",
          "text": "He watched as Jo mother-henned her entire family, including the kids, into the closed café.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Erik Henry Vick, Demon King:",
          "text": "The two little ones were up on the sidewalk now, being mother-henned by two ladies with blue hair and eating ice cream.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in an overprotective or extremely nurturing manner (towards)."
      ],
      "id": "en-mother-hen-en-verb-4-ocvyq-",
      "links": [
        [
          "overprotective",
          "overprotective"
        ],
        [
          "nurturing",
          "nurture"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To behave in an overprotective or extremely nurturing manner (towards)."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "mother hen"
        },
        {
          "word": "henpecked"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mother-hen"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mother-hens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mother-henning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mother-henned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mother-henned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "mother-hen (third-person singular simple present mother-hens, present participle mother-henning, simple past and past participle mother-henned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "mother hen"
    },
    {
      "word": "henpecked"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Renon Klossner Hulet, Don't You Dare Give Up, page 201:",
          "text": "Concerned for Diane's well-being, he mother-henned her constantly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Patricia Rice, Rebel Girl:",
          "text": "He watched as Jo mother-henned her entire family, including the kids, into the closed café.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Erik Henry Vick, Demon King:",
          "text": "The two little ones were up on the sidewalk now, being mother-henned by two ladies with blue hair and eating ice cream.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in an overprotective or extremely nurturing manner (towards)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overprotective",
          "overprotective"
        ],
        [
          "nurturing",
          "nurture"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To behave in an overprotective or extremely nurturing manner (towards)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mother-hen"
}