subs. (American Stock Exchange).—A female gambler.
1876. San Francisco Post, Nov. The average MUD-HEN is middle-aged, rather stout in person, as voluble in conversation as a stump-speaker, and possessed of an inordinate desire to become a ‘stock-sharp.’ She has a wonderful amount of gossip and ‘dead-sure points’ to communicate, and is by no means unwilling to reveal all she knows to any one who is supposed to have information relative to any stock, and in return can give her a point.
