A-Z Database
Humdinger is an American English informal word that dates from the late 19th century and describes an excellent, exceptional person, thing, or event....
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’,...
An American expression meaning splendid, dates from the mid-19th century but the origin is obscure. Many different theories abound, from honchi-dori a...
A rhyming compound word suggested by the sound of the musical instrument it describes, which is a stringed instrument driven by a wheel turned by hand...
This expression dates from the 16th century and means an uproar or tumultuous disturbance. In the 1400s, the word hurling meant commotion or strife an...
Hush money is money paid as a bribe to keep someone quiet about something or other and dates in this sense from the early 18th century.
Derives from the Hungarian huszar and Old Serbian husar and denotes a mounted raider and later a light cavalryman. In Hungary during the 15th century,...