A-Z Database
Noise, confusion or uproar, a word of Gaelic origin from the 16th century, probably imitative and originally a battle cry that evolved into a meaning...
An American expression meaning to nag or annoy, derives from the Yiddish hakn dates from the mid-20th century.
see I’m your huckleberry
A widespread clamour or public outcry that dates back to Norman times when it was an Old French expression hu et cri. The modern French huer to shout...
A tumultuous uproar or clamorous confusion dates from the mid-18th century and has appeared in many different spelling variations since the currently...
Famously used by Ebenezer Scrooge to describe Christmas in Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol and means nonsense or rubbish. It dates from the mid-18th...
Humungous is an American portmanteau word and this particular one, describing something very large, is a combination of huge, monstrous with perhaps a...
A hunch meaning a presentiment or positive feeling that something or other will be the case is American and dates from the early 20th century. How thi...
see Hang/hang it
There are very many similes for phrases beginning with 'hungry as…' and most of them relate to animals like lions, wolves, bears, horses etc and most...
see Hungry as a bear, hawk, horse, hunter, lion, wolf etc
see Hungry as a bear, hawk, horse, hunter, lion, wolf etc
see Eat a horse
An American expression for an attractive, sexually appealing young man dates from the 1940s. It builds on an earlier American word hunkey from the mid...
An American expression meaning to hide, hide out, or take shelter, dates from the late 18th century. The OED gives an obsolete meaning for ‘hunker’,...