Getting To Grips With Southern Hospitality – The True Meaning Of Southern Phrases

Published on 05/07/2021
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Madder Than A Wet Hen

Much of the Southern states’ geography consists of farmlands, and you can be sure that farmers have some hilariously zany phrases. One of the best that we have heard is “madder than a wet hen”, which is a gendered phrase describing a woman that is inconsolably furious. While we have never seen a wet hen, we can only imagine that it would not take kindly to having its feathers ruined by rainfall, and might be prone to pecking a nearby human.

Madder Than A Wet Hen

Madder Than A Wet Hen

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