Hue, verb. (old).—See quot.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. The Cove was Hued in the Naskin, the Rogue was severely Lasht in Bridewell.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. [[371]]
Huey, subs. (Old Cant).—A town or village.
1851–61. H. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, vol. I., p. 231. ‘Where do you stall to in the huey?’ which, fairly translated, means, ‘Where do you lodge in the town?’
Huff, subs. (colloquial).—1. An outburst of temper; peevishness; offence at some real or imaginary wrong or slight. Hence, to get (or take) the huff = to fly into a passion.
1599. H. Porter, Two Angry Women of Abingdon (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, vii., 311). And as thou say’st to me, to him I said, But in a greater huff and hotter blood.
1676. Etherege, Man of Mode, Wks. (1704), i., 190. Tax her with the next fop that comes Into my head, and in a huff march away.
1688. Shadwell, Sq. of Alsatia, Wks. (1720), iv., 63. If you were not the brother to my dearest friend, I know what my honour would prompt me to [walks in a huff].
1700. Farquhar, Constant Couple, ii., 2. I offer’d her fifty guineas, and she was in her airs presently, and flew away in a huff.