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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
As early as 1857, one spoke of humping it, but gen. the phrase is hump one's
swag (Howitt), one's drum (—1866) as in Lawson's When the World was Wide,
1896, and in C.20 (one's) bluey, this last being recorded in 1890. See bluey and
cf.
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
To shoulder and carry: Australia: from ca 1850, perhaps orig. gold-diggers' s., as
W.Howitt's Two Years in Victoria, vol. i, 1853, tends to show. As early as 1857,
one spoke of humping it, but gen. the phrase is hump one's SWAG (Howitt), one's
...
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Dictionary of Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms and ...
hump one's swag, swag (it)/awalk or tramp with a load on one's back. 2. suitable
wavefor surfing. hump/ be over the hump Am. col. be past the most difficult
situation. hump/ bustone's hump Am. sl. try hard to do smth. hump/ have/take/get
the ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
So, hump yourself (1928). 7 to hump one's swag (bluey, drum, knot, Matilda)
Austral To travel on foot carrying a bundle of possessions, esp. on one's back.
1851–. B. NORMAN He was unable to get a lift home so he decided to hump his
bluey ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English
36 The phrase to hump one's swag meaning 'to travel on foot carrying (especially
on one's back) a bundle of possessions' is usually associated with itinerant rural
workers of the final quarter of the nineteenth century, but there is no doubt that it ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Fla to Hyps
IBM -61. H. Mavhew, Land. Lab. and Land. Poor, vol. i., p. 253. To hump in street
parlance, is equivalent to ' botch,' in more genteel colloquialism. 2. (colonial).—
To shoulder and carry. E.g., To hump one's swag = to shoulder one's kit. 1886.
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1893
A bundle carried on tramp; generally worn as a roll over the 'right shoulder and
under the left arm. Also Bluey and Swag. ' Here are a few more items of
Australian slang kindly forwarded to me by a correspondent:— 'To hump one's
swag', ...
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Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases: Including Slang of the ...
HOWARD'S GREENS : See Nicknames of Regiments. HUFFED, TO BE : To be
killed. HUM, TO : To cadge. HUMP, TO : To lift. To carry. (Originally an Australian
digger's word, e.g., to hump one's swag — to carry one's load). HUMP IT, TO : To
...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... ...
Here are a few more items of Australian slang kindly forwarded to me by a
correspondent :— ' To hump one's swag,' or ' DRUM,' i.e.t to pack up a bundle to
be carried on the shoulders. 1890. Family Herald, 8 Feb., p. 227. I was just
debating ...
John Stephen Farmer, Henley, 1891
"To hump one's swag" means to carry one's load. More often used to refer to any
crosscountry march. Huss: to "give a huss," a break, some slack or helping hand.
The UH-34 helicopter was first designated as the "HUS" and when Vietnam-era ...
