What does mad as a wet hen mean?

mad as a wet hen

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English

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American usage; Colloquial

"My stars! He was mad; mad as a wet hen. He was so mad he looked, as big as he was, to be actually swelled."

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angry as a wet hen miserable as a wet hen wild as a wet hen

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