"mad as a wet hen" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1899, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, “The Doctor Puts Up a Job on the Major”, in Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon:",
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        "(US, colloquial, simile) Very angry; furious."
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          "word": "miserable as a wet hen"
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