10 АНГЛІЙСЬКА КНИЖКИ ПОВ'ЯЗАНІ ІЗ «HUMDUDGEON»
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Tender Journey: A Story for Our Troubled Times...
“I learned a new word that describes our house perfectly—humdudgeon. Isn't that
a super neat word? Humdudgeon. Bet you don't know what it means.” “Can't say
as I do.” “It sounds like curmudgeon. Do you know what that means?” “Nope ...
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Medical Meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins
humdudgeon is an imaginary illness or a woeful hypochondriac's complaint.
Probably the word is a contracted admixture of “humbug” and “dudgeon.” In
Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is the quotation “He has got the
humdudgeon; ...
William S. Haubrich,
2003
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
See hum-drum humdudgeon, humdurgeon. An imaginary illness: coll.: —1785.
Grose, 15t ed., spells it humdurgeon, the OED humdudgeon, thus linking the
word with dudgeon, ill humour. Grose, 'He has got the hum durgeon, the thickest
part ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
By 'reduplication on hum, with reminiscence of drum', W. humdudgeon;
humdurgeon . An imaginary illness: coll (–1785). Grose, 1st ed., spells it
humdurgeon, the O.E.D. humdudgeon, thus linking the word with dudgeon, ill
humour. Grose, 'He ...
Chapter. Seventeen. A. Dam. and. a. Blast. They. scheduled the next meeting of
the escape committee for after suppertime. An overexcited Athene was keen to
call the group together right there and then, but Humdudgeon persuaded her to ...
There is an old quasi-medical term humdudgeon, meaning something like
accidie or being down in the hypochondriac dumps, or the Cameelious Hump,
the Hump that is black and blue. This is cheating, because humdudgeon is
clearly ...
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Guy Mannering: Or, the Astrologer
“Hoot tout, man—I would never be making a humdudgeon about a scart on the
pow— but we'll be in Scotland in five minutes now, and ye maun gang up to
Charlies-hope wi' me, that's a clear case.» Brown readily accepted the offered ...
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The Waverley manual: or, Hand-book of the chief characters, ...
He leaps from the Tower before the explosion, and knocks Humdudgeon from his
platform. The soldiers seize upon him, and he sustains the character which he
had assumed : " Eebel villains, would you slay your King ?" — ch. xxxiv.
Cromwell ...
Sidney William Cornish,
1871
Houkit, dug out. Howm, r. Holm, Hoying, hollowing to ; setting on a dog.
Humdudgeon, needless noise; much ado about nothing. Humle. humble, without
horns. Huinlock-know, hemlock-knoll. Hurcheon, urchin; hedge-hog. Hoodie-
midwife.
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The Voyage of the Shuckenoor
What humdudgeon! There was no reason to suppose the wedge-tailed eagle's
nest was lost— that particular wood was everywhere, used for piles and house
beams, butcher's blocks and meat skewers, mallet heads and axe handles, and
no ...
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Scottish word of the week: Humdudgeon
Humdudgeon describes a fuss over nothing, a storm in a teacup (or a needless stooshie, as some might say). Someone who goes to great ... «Scotsman, Березень 14»
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Humdudgeon: A fit of pique that you control by making a low, continuous growl. (Roy Ashley, Washington) [n., an imaginary illness]. Idiopt, n. «Washington Post, Січень 13»
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... hispidulous; hornito; hounce; housty; huddon; huff-duff; huffkin; humdudgeon; humstrum; idiopt; ikat; impone; inti; izzard; jaffle; jank; jargogle; ... «Washington Post, Грудень 12»
And what will happen if Yuvraj and Kohli take over the world?
... one of those smug India supporters who expects the answer to include the words "catastrophe", "impossible" and "ridiculous humdudgeon". «ESPNcricinfo.com, Червень 11»