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He came up yelling, \"What! Her?\"¶ \"Yes, her,\" boomed Mr. Carter. \"She’s t’ be the hen hussy on these premises.”", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A girl or woman who tends chickens." ], "id": "en-henhussy-en-noun-jTbsI3un", "links": [ [ "girl", "girl" ], [ "woman", "woman" ], [ "tend", "tend" ], [ "chicken", "chicken" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) A girl or woman who tends chickens." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "40 47 12", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "26 40 35", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup", "parents": [ "Entries with topic categories using raw markup", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "14 39 46", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "People", "orig": "en:People", "parents": [ "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1840 June 2, Miss Sedgewick, “The Canary Family”, in The Ladies' Pearl, volume 1, number 1, page 66", "text": "When I saw the family last, his second wife had built her nest, though not half so well as her predecessor. 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