Haslar-hag, subs. (nautical).—A nurse at the Haslar Hospital. Cf., Hag.
Hastings. To be none of the Hastings sort, verb. phr. (old colloquial).—To be slow, deliberate, or slothful.
1690. b. e., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. You are none of the Hastings, of him that loses an Opportunity or a Business for want of Dispatch. [[277]]
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. He is none of the Hastings sort; a saying of a slow, loitering fellow: an allusion to the Hastings pea, which is the first in season.
Hasty, adj. (old: now recognised).—Rash; passionate; quick to move.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hasty, very Hot on a sudden.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Hasty G., subs. (Cambridge Univ.).—See quot.
1883. Daily News, 24 Mar., p. 5, c. 2. Mr. Weller’s own hasty g. (as Cambridge men say when they mean a ‘hasty generalisation’).