human touch
Personal and emotional consideration in interactions
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Humanity Martin
Richard Martin (1754- 1834) one of the founders of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He secured the passage of several laws making cruelty to certain animals illegal.
humble pie
to apologize or admit fault, often in a humiliating way
humbugs
The brethren of the venerable society of humbugs was held at brother Hallam's, in Goodman's Fields.
humdrum
Monotonous, tedious, tiresome, boring; "a society of gentlemen who used to meet near the Charter House, and at the King’s Head, St. John’s Street, Clerkenwell. They were characterized by less mystery and more pleasantry than the Freemasons."—Bacchus and Venus, 1737. In the West the term applies to a low cart.
hummer
A great lye, a rapper. See RAPPER.
humming
Strong as applied to drink. Extra strong ale is often characterized as "HUMMING October." Maybe from its effect on heads not quite so strong.
Humming Ale
Strong liquor that froths well, and causes a humming in the head of the drinker.
humming liquor
Double ale, stout pharaoh. See PHARAOH.
hummums
A bagnio, or bathing house.
hump
To hump; once a fashionable word for copulation.
hump
Low spirits. A costermonger who was annoyed or distressed about anything would describe himself as having "the HUMP."
hump dumpling
A child.
hump up
"to have one’s HUMP UP," to be cross or ill-tempered—like a cat with its back set up. See BACK and MONKEY.
humpability
fuckability
humpty dumpty
A little humpty dumpty man or woman; a short clumsy person of either sex: also ale boiled with brandy.
Humpty Dumpty
A little deformed dwarf, "humpty" and "dumpty." There used to be a drink of this name, composed of ale boiled with brandy; and it is also applied — in allusion to the old nursery rhyme — to an egg, and to anything that is, or may be, irretrievably shattered.
Humpty Dumptyism
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
humpty-dumpty
Short and thick; all of a heap; all together, like an egg.
hums
Persons at church. There is a great number of hums in the autem; there is a great congregation in the church.
hunch
To shove, or jostle.
hunch over
to bend forward with a curved back
hundo P
100 percent
Hundred Years War
It was also through the operation of the Salic Law that the Crowns of Hanover and England were separated when Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837. The revocation of the Salic Law in Spain by Ferdinand VII, in order that his daughter Isabella should succeed him on the throne, tore the country into two factions, the Isabel- litas and the Carhsts who fought for the claims of Ferdinand's brother Don Carlos.
hundreds and thousands
A name given by sweetstuff-selters to almost any very tiny comfits.
hung beef
A dried bull's pizzle. How the dubber served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the fellow with a bull's pizzle.
hung on the nail
Put in pawn. The custom referred to is the old one of hanging each pawn on a nail, with a number attached, and giving the customer a duplicate thereof.
hung up
Having a hang-up, or emotional difficulty.
Hungary stood by Urban
The Church was torn from top to bottom by the schism, both sides being in good faith and no one knowing to whom allegiance was due. This confusion lasted until 1417, when Martin V was elected at the Council of Constance. Schlemihl, Peter (shlem' il). The man who sold his shadow to the devil, in Chamisso's tale so called (1814). The name is a synonym for any person who makes a desperate and silly bar- gain.
Hungary Water
Made of rosemary flowers and spirit, said to be so called because the receipt was given by a hermit to a Queen of Hungary.
hunger and thirst
Strong desire or craving
hunger never knows the taste, sleep never knows the comfort
Necessities are not appreciated until they are lacking
hunger sauce
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
hungry as a hog
Very hungry
hunk
A honyock.
hunker down
Prepare to endure a difficult situation
hunks
A covetous miserable fellow, a miser; also the name of a famous bear mentioned by Ben Jonson.
hunks
A miserly fellow, a curmudgeon.
hunky
An American term which means good, jolly, &c. As, "a HUNKY boy," a good jovial fellow; and "everything went off HUNKY."
hunt where the ducks are
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
hunter pitching
The game of cockshies—three throws a penny.—See COCKSHY.
hunting
Drawing in unwary persons to play or game. CANT.
hunting the squirrel
An amusement practised by postboys and stage-coachmen, which consists in following a one-horse chaise, and driving it before them, passing close to it, so as to brush the wheel, and by other means terrifying any woman or person that may be in it. A man whose turn comes for him to drink, before he has emptied his former glass, is said to be hunted.
huntsup
The reveillier of huntsmen, sounded on the French horn, or other instrument.
hurdy gurdy
A kind of fiddle, originally made perhaps out of a gourd. See HUMSTRUM.
hurdy-gurdy
A droning musical instrument shaped like a large fiddle, and turned by a crank, used by Savoyards and other itinerant foreign musicians in England, now nearly superseded by the hand-organ. From the peculiar noise made by the instrument, which in Italy is called "viola."
hurkaru
A messenger.—Anglo-Indian.
hurl
To vomit.
hurl chunks
To vomit.
hurler on the ditch
Someone who criticizes or offers advice without being involved
hurling and burling
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
hurly burly
A rout, riot, bustle or confusion.
Hurra's Nest
A mess up, tangle — a phrase of nautical origin.
hurrah's nest
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
hurry up and wait
To be rushed into action, then forced to wait
hurt a fly
to harm someone or something in any way
hurt someone's feelings
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
husband and wife
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
hush
Hush the cull; murder the fellow.
hush money
Money given to hush up or conceal a robbery, theft, or any other offence, or to take off the evidence from appearing against a criminal.
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