"mad as a wet hen" meaning in English

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