henny penny
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who panics at the slightest provocation.
Example Sentences
- "The Henny Pennies who forecast doom and disaster thus have been proved hysterics who could use some est or encounter sessions to calm their anxieties."
- "I know that in some quarters I am regarded as a kind of wet blanket, a Henny Penny predicting doom and gloom."
- "On April 11, in a tense news conference during a period when the looting dominated the news, Rumsfeld dismissed the media by calling them “Henny Pennies,” a reference to a children's tale in which the main character runs around, declaring that the sky is falling."