Dame Partlet:

name for a hen in the medieval Europe-an story-book “Renard the Fox” and in Chaucer’s“Tale of the Cock and the Fox” of ”The CanterburyTales”，and hence for a fussy and scolding woman帕特来特太太，中世纪欧洲故事书《列那狐》中一个母鸡之名，（比喻）爱大惊小怪和责骂人的女人。
△1H.IV.3.3.60 (52):“Hownow. Dame Partlet the hen?”怎么样，老母鸡太太？