hugger mugger
By stealth, privately, without making an appearance. They spent their money in a hugger mugger way.
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hugger-mugger
Underhand, sneaking. Also, "in a state of HUGGER-MUGGER" means to be muddled.
Hugh of Lincoln
It was said that the Jews in 1255 stole a boy of 8 years old named Hugh, whom they tortured for ten days and then crucified or drowned in a well. Eighteen of the richest Jews of Lincoln were hanged for taking part in this affair, and more would have been put to death had it not been for the intercession of the Franciscans; the boy was buried in state.
hugotontheonbiquiffinarians
A society existing in 1748.
hugs and kisses
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Huli Festival
So that it cannot refer to the uncertainty of the weather, nor yet to a mockery of the trial of our Redeemer, the two most popular explanations. A better solution is this: As March 25th used to be New Year's Day, April 1st was its octave, when its festivities culminated and ended.
hulk
To hang about in hopes of an invitation. See MOOCH.
hulky
Extra-sized.—Shropshire. From this and from hulk we probably get our adjective HULKING, as applied to the great lazy ruffians who infest low neighbourhoods.
Hulsean Lectures
Instituted by the Rev. John Hulse (1708-90), of Cheshire, in 1777. Some four or six sermons on Christian evidences are preached annually at Great St.
hulver-headed
Having a hard impenetrable head; hulver, in the Norfolk dialect, signifying holly, a hard and solid wood.
hum and haw
To hesitate or avoid making a decision
hum cap
Very old and strong beer, called also stingo. See STINGO.
hum drum
A hum drum fellow; a dull tedious narrator, a bore; also a set of gentlemen, who (Bailey says) used to meet near the Charter House, or at the King's Head in St. John's-street, who had more of pleasantry, and less of mystery, than the free masons.
hum durgeon
An imaginary illness. He has got the humdurgeon, the thickest part of his thigh is nearest his a-se; i.e. nothing ails him except low spirits.
hum trum
A musical instrument made of a mopstick, a bladder, and some packthread, thence also called a bladder and string, and hurdy gurdy; it is played on like a violin, which is sometimes ludicrously called a humstrum; sometimes, instead of a bladder, a tin canister is used.
hum-box
A pulpit. This is a very old term.
human being
A person, emphasizing their humanity
Human Race
He was guillotined by Robes- pierre in 1794.
human rights
Fundamental rights and freedoms that all people are entitled to
human touch
Personal and emotional consideration in interactions
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.
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