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.