The author.
The term is originally an Americanism = »Honest Indian»—a kind of mock oath, with some allusion to the supposed unusualness of honesty among the Indians.
hump, humpy
»I’ve got the hump to-night.» (P. Kelver II. 166. 27.)
A business man, former Whitechapel butcher.
»Harris said it would be humpy.» (Three Men In A Boat 8. 4.)
»He criticised it as the humpiest funeral he had ever known.» (Tommy And Co. 74. 4.)
An undertaker.
»That ain’t the sort of thing to be humpy about.» (T. T. T. 156. 20.)
A waiter.