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nounhyen (plural hyens)
plural hyens
- obsoleteA hyena.
I will laugh like a hyen.
c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]1 more example
Their blind feet drift in the darkness, and no one is leading; Their toil is the pasture, where hyens and harpies are feeding
1900, Edwin Markham, The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems (poem), The Toilers
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