Hubble de shuff. Confusedly.
To fire hubble de shuff,
to fire quick and irregularly. Old
military term.
Hubbub. A noise, riot, or disturbance.
Huckle my buff. Beer, egg, and brandy, made hot.
Hucksters. Itinerant retailers of provisions.
He is in
hucksters hands; he is in a bad way.
To Hue. To lash. The cove was
hued in the naskin;
the rogue was soundly lashed in bridewell.
Cant.
To huff. To reprove, or scold at any
one; also to bluster,
bounce, ding, or swagger. A captain
huff; a noted bully.
To stand the huff; to be answerable for
the reckoning in
a public house.
Hug. To hug brown bess; to carry a firelock,
or serve as a
private soldier. He hugs it as the
Devil hugs a witch:
said of one who holds any thing as if
he was afraid of losing
it.
Hugger mugger. By stealth, privately,
without making
an appearance. They spent their money
in a hugger
mugger way.
HUGOTONTHEONBIQUIFFINARIANS. A society existing
in
1748.
HULKY, or hulking. A great hulky fellow;
an over-grown
clumsy lout, or fellow.
Hulver-headed. Having a hard impenetrable
head; hulver,
in the Norfolk dialect, signifying holly,
a hard and
solid wood.
To hum, or humbug. To deceive,
or impose on one by
some story or device. A humbug; a
jocular imposition,
or deception. To hum and haw; to
hesitate in speech,
also to delay, or be with difficulty brought
to consent to
any matter or business,
Hums. Persons at church. There is a great
number of hums
in the autem; there is a great congregation
in the church.
Hum box. A pulpit.
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.
HUMBUGS. The brethren of the venerable society
of humbugs
was held at brother Hallam’s, in
Goodman’s Fields.
Hummer. A great lye, a rapper. See rapper.
Humming liquor. Double ale, stout pharaoh. See pharaoh.
HUMMUMS. A bagnio, or bathing house.


