husband's tea
Very weak (dilute) tea.
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husbando
A fictional male character from non-live-action visual media (typically an anime, manga, or video game) to whom one is attracted and/or whom one considers their significant other.
husbands' boat
The Saturday-afternoon packet boat from London to Margate during the summer season.
hush down
To become quiet; to cease making sounds.
hush one's mouth
To be quiet.
hush puppy
A semiautomatic handgun fitted with a suppressor, used by special forces personnel to quietly take out guard dogs and sentries.
hush shop
A shop that illicitly sells alcoholic drinks without a licence.
husker
A fan or supporter of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the sports teams of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
husky
Belligerent; hostile and uncooperative.
huskysona
A fursona that is a husky.
hussy up
To dress so as to be more sexually attractive, often applying excessive makeup or wearing revealing clothing.
hustla
Pronunciation spelling of hustler.
hustle up
To produce or find (something) by hustling (work hard, con, swindle, or deceive or obtain by illicit or forceful action).
hutchie
A dugout or shelter, especially as used in the Korean War.
huzz
Women; hoes, whores.
hwite
White (racial sense).
hybrid fever
Sexual attraction towards mixed-race people, expressed by monoracial people.
hydrate
To drink water.
hydrate or diedrate
Dehydration can eventually lead to death; used to encourage children to drink adequate water when camping or doing other outdoor activities.
hyenasona
A fursona that is a hyena.
hygiene
The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
hygienic
Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
hype
Excellent, cool.
hype up
To talk up; to promote extravagantly.
hypebeast
A person obsessed with acquiring fashionable items, especially clothing and shoes.
hypeness
excitement; excellence; coolness
hyper
Energetic; overly diligent.
hyperwoke
Extremely or excessively woke.
hyphy
Rambunctious, loud, crazy, dangerous, irrational, and outrageous in behavior.
hypnoboob
The controversy over Green Party leader Zack Polanski having claimed, while working as a hypnotherapist, that he could help women increase their breast size through hypnosis.
hypo
A hypochondriac.
hypochristian
A Christian who behaves contrary to Christian tenets or values.
hysterical historical
A historical-romance novel with a focus on sex and violence.
h umber
See Spenser's Faerie Queene, II, x, 16:— He [Locrine] then encountred, a confused rout, Forbye the River that whylome was hight The ancient Abus . . .
Habit is a great deadener. (Samuel Beckett)
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
hack and slash
a style of gaming or fiction involving violent combat
hack it
to manage or cope with something
hack off
To remove by hacking; to cut off.
Hackell's Coit
A vast stone said to weigh about 30 tons, near Stanton Drew, Somerset; so called from a tradition that it was a quoit or coit thrown by Sir John Hautville. In Wiltshire three huge stones near Kennet are called the DeviVs coits.
hackle
Pluck; "to show HACKLE," to be willing to fight. HACKLES are the long feathers on the back of a cock’s neck, which he erects when angry,—hence the metaphor.
hackney writer
One who writes for attornies or booksellers.
hackslaver
To stammer in one’s speech, like a dunce at his lesson.
hackum
Captain Hackum; a bravo, a slasher.
had better
should do something to avoid trouble or problems
had'em
He has been at Had'em, and came home by Clapham; said of one who has caught the venereal disease.
hades was stern and terrible
Legend says that as she was amusing herself in the meadows of Sicily Pluto seized her and carried her off in his chariot to the infernal regions for his bride. In her terror she dropped some of the lilies she had been gathering, and they turned to daf- fodils.
hag
A woman.
haggart
Life of David Haggart, alias John Wilson, alias Barney M’Coul, written by himself while under sentence of death, curious frontispiece of the prisoner in irons, intermixed with all the Slang and Cant words of the day, to which is added a Glossary of the same, 12mo. 1821.
Haif Joe
A Portuguese coin (worth about $4), current on the Atlantic coast of the U.S.A. in the 18th century.
hail and farewell
A greeting and goodbye at the same time
hail fellow well met
One on easy, familiar terms; an intimate acquaintance. Hail fellow well met, all dirty and wet; Find out, if you can, who's master, who's man. SWIFT: My Lady's Lamentation.
hair of the dog
A small amount of alcohol consumed to alleviate a hangover
hair out of place
completely perfect or immaculate
Hair Stane
A hoar-stone (#.v.) is so called in Scotland, Hajar al-Aswad (ha/ jaral as' wad). The fa- mous black stone in the north-east corner of the Kaaba; it is an irregular oval, about 7 in. in breadth, and is surrounded with a circle of gold. The legend is that when Abraham wished to build the Kaaba, the stones came to him of their own accord, and the patriarch commanded all the faithful to kiss this one.
hair's breadth
a very small distance or amount
hair-breadth 'scape
A very narrow escape from some danger or evil. In measurement the forty-eighth part of an inch is called a "hair- breadth.
hairy canary
The penis.
hairy molly
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
halbert
A weapon carried by a serjeant of foot. To get a halbert; to be appointed a serjeant. To be brought to the halberts; to be flogged a la militaire: soldiers of the infantry, when flogged, being commonly tied to three halberts, set up in a triangle, with a fourth fastened across them. He carries the halbert in his face; a saying of one promoted from a serjeant to a commission officer.
Halcyon Bays
A time of happiness and-prosperity. Halcyon is the Greek for a kingfisher, compounded of hah (the sea) and kup (to brood on). The ancient Sicilians be- lieved that the kingfisher laid its eggs and incubated for fourteen days, before the winter solstice, on the surface of the sea, during which time the waves of the sea were always un- ruffled.