*Howed-for. Well provided for, taken care of (A.B.C.H.Wr.).
Huckmuck. (1) A strainer placed before the faucet in brewing (A.B.H.Wr.).—N.W. (2) Parus caudatus, the Long-tailed Titmouse (Birds of Wilts, p. 173).—N. & S.W. (3) General untidiness and confusion, as at a spring-cleaning. A very dirty untidy old woman is 'a reg'lar huckmuck.'—N.W.
Hucks, Husks. (1) The chaff of oats (Village Miners).—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) Grains of wheat which have the chaff still adhering to them after threshing, and are only fit for feeding poultry.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Hud. (1) n. The husk of a walnut, skin of a gooseberry, shell of a pea or bean, &c.—N. & S.W. (2) v. To take off the husk of certain fruits and vegetables. Beans are hudded and peas shelled for cooking.—N.W. (3) A finger-stall or finger of a glove (S.). Also Huddick (S.).—N. & S.W. (4) A lump or clod of earth.—N.W. Cf. Hut.
Huddy, Oddy. Of soil, full of lumps and clods.—N.W.
*Hudgy. Clumsy, thick (A.B.C.H.Wr.).
Hudmedud. (1) n. A scarecrow (A.). In common use in N. Wilts.
'Mester Cullum i sends you back your saddell koz its such a cusnashun rum looking hudmedud of a theng that pipl woll no it direckly.'—Wilts Tales, p. 79.
'"That nimity-pimity odd-me-dod!"... Little contemptible scarecrow.'—Greene Ferne Farm, ch. iii.
*(2) adj. Short and clumsy (B.). See Hodmedod.