"Henny Penny" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1984, Carol Chambers Collins, Our Food, Air and Water: How Safe Are They?, Facts on File, published 1984, →ISBN, page 27:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2001, Seymour B. Sarason, American Psychology & Schools: A Critique, Teachers College Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 130:",
          "text": "I know that in some quarters I am regarded as a kind of wet blanket, a Henny Penny predicting doom and gloom.",
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          "ref": "2006, Rebecca Knuth, Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction, Praegar Publishers, published 2006, →ISBN, page 209:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "One who panics at the slightest provocation."
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          "word": "Chicken Little"
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          "ref": "1984, Carol Chambers Collins, Our Food, Air and Water: How Safe Are They?, Facts on File, published 1984, →ISBN, page 27:",
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          "ref": "2001, Seymour B. Sarason, American Psychology & Schools: A Critique, Teachers College Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 130:",
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        "One who panics at the slightest provocation."
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