1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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.

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