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▪ I. huddle, v.|ˈhʌd(ə)l|
Also 6 huddel, 6–7 hudle, 8 hudell.
[Huddle vb. and n. are known only from the second half of the 16th c.; the vb., which prob. preceded the n., has the form of a diminutive and iterative, perh. ultimately from the Teut. root hud-, hūd- to cover (see hud n.1); cf. hoder v., hudder-mudder, also LG. hudern to cherish, shelter, as a hen her chickens, iterative of LG. hûden to hide. Senses 4 b, c, come close to dialectal senses of Ger. hudeln to do (work) hastily and carelessly, to scamp; cf. hudelei slovenly work, scamping. But no satisfactory theory of relationship with these words can at present be offered.
The history and order of the senses is in many respects obscure; see esp. the early quots. under huddle adv. and huddling ppl. a.]
I. trans.
†1. To put or keep out of sight; to conceal or hide, as among a crowd or under a heap; to hush up. Obs.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 12 b, To chop of the head of the sentence, and slyly huddle the rest [orig. qui sententiæ caput abscindens astute reliqua subtices]. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxvi. (1887) 103 They..neither can of them selues, neither ought at my hand to be hudled vp in silence. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. xxxv. xix, Time there doth all in dark oblivion huddle. 1653A. Wilson Jas. I 285 (N.) The matter was hudled up, and little spoken of it. 1680Otway Orphan iii. i, I do not like this marriage, Huddled i' the dark, and done at too much venture. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 2 ⁋15 His merit may pass without notice, huddled in the variety of things. 1795Wolcott (P. Pindar) Wks. (1812) III. 329 Huddle up the News.
2. To pile or heap up confusedly; to crowd together closely and unceremoniously. (In earlier use the sense was sometimes simply, To jumble, mix up in confusion.)
1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 252 Shee told mee..that I was duller then a great thaw, hudling iest vpon iest. 1623tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. vii. xi. 252 This Genealogie is in this partie much hudled. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Huddle, to confound or mingle things together, after a confused manner. 1897Hall Caine Christian x, The furniture was huddled about in disorder.
b. Also with together, up.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 63/1 That matters might not be huddeled and scuffled vppe together confusedly, and without order. 1581W. Charke in Confer. iv. (1584) Ee iij b, You confound and huddle them together. 1650Fuller Pisgah i. vi. 15 A heap of wildernesses hudled up together. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 74 Those..Writers..huddle together what ever they meet with in former Authors. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. I. v. 376 The matter would seem to be huddled up in this manner merely to suppress discoveries. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 122 A bullet might easily reach them, if huddled together in a flock. 1875McLaren Serm. Ser. ii. xii. 211 Huddling together in grotesque chaos things which are utterly diverse.
c. To contract or draw (oneself) together ‘all of a heap’; to coil up unceremoniously.
1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 264 He chose his ground, on which he huddled himself up, and enjoyed a most profound sleep. 1861Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. 104 That at least he might not die huddled up like a cow. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped iv, He lay as he had fallen, all huddled.
3. To push or thrust in a disorderly mass or heap, into, out of (etc.) some place.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. ii. §20 The obscurity of his burial (huddled into his grave at Langley). 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 367 To whitewash my room and put things in order; a phrase which..means little else than huddling every thing into holes and corners. 1833Marryat P. Simple xix, We were huddled out like a flock of sheep, by a file of soldiers with loaded muskets. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1869) 296 They huddled the king's body into a postchaise. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 47 Reform bills..are huddled or juggled through a House of fretful or feverish senators.
b. with on: To put on (clothes) hurriedly and ‘all of a heap’.
1697Vanbrugh Relapse ii. Wks. (Rtldg.) 309/2, I..huddle on my clothes and get dressed by one. 1709Prior Hans Carvel 34 At Twelve She rose, with much ado Her Cloaths were huddl'd on by Two. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xxxiii, The Friar..had huddled a friar's frock over his green cassock. 1824― St. Ronan's xxii, You must positively go back into your dressing room and huddle your things on as fast as you can. 1868Helps Realmah xv. (1876) 395 His clothes seem to be huddled on anyhow.
4. To drive or push hurriedly, and without order or ceremony; to hurry (a person or thing). ? Obs.
1649Milton Eikon. xxiv, I shall huddle him as he does Prayers. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) I. xxv. 101 You have huddled your book too soon to the press. 1685Rochester Valentin. iii. iii, Trembling through Terror lest he come too late They huddle his Dispatch while at the Gate. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 353 Let him forecast his Work with timely care, Which else is huddled, when the Skies are fair.
b. with over, through: To hurry through, run over, or perform in a hurried slovenly way.
1648Gage West Ind. 102 To continue in the Church while a Masse is briefly hudled over. 1696tr. Duquesne's Voy. E. Ind. 167 We presently huddled over a few prayers, according to custom. 1799T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 261, I have suffered the post hour to come so nearly on me, that I must huddle over what I have more than appears in the public papers. 1885Manch. Exam. 6 Mar. 5/4 The solemnities had to be huddled through at express speed.
c. with up: To hurry the completion of; to work up, finish up, or compile, in haste and without proper care; to botch up hastily.
1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 59 They were hudlid and as you know bunglid upp in more haste then good speede. 1581Savile Tacitus, Hist. iii. lv. (1591) 147 Him⁓selfe [Vitellius]..hudled up the election of officers [L. festinare comitia]. 1692Ray Dissol. World Pref. (1732) 15 Too hasty in huddling up and tumbling out of Books. 1721Swift Corr. Wks. 1841 II. 556, I was in fear lest the post should be gone, and so..huddled up without thinking of the date. 1784Cowper Task ii. 412 And reading..Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. 1839Macaulay Ess., Gladstone (1860) II. 440 She sprang from a compromise huddled up between the eager zeal of reformers and the selfishness of greedy, ambitious, and time-serving politicians.
5. To hug. Now dial.
a1650Ld. Barnard & Lit. Musgrave 24 in Furniv. Percy Folio I. 121 But lie still, lie still, litle Musgreue, and huddle me from the cold. c1665Roxb. Ball. (1891) VII. 366 But huddle and cuddle, wee'l toy and wee'll kiss. 1811Willan W. Riding Gloss. (E.D.S.), Huddle, to embrace. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Huddle, (1) to embrace, to squeeze, to hug, to cuddle.
II. intr.
6. To gather or flock in a congested mass; to crowd together unceremoniously; to nestle closely in a heap. Also with together, up.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 28 Glancing an eye of pitty on his losses That haue of late so hudled on his backe. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. v. 292 Different seasons would have hudled upon each other. a1656Ussher Ann. (1658) 515 The people came huddling out of the severall Cities..to salute him. 1821Byron Vis. Judgm. xxvi, The very cherubs huddled all together. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xv, The cattle huddled on the lea. 1854M. Howitt Pict. Calendar 528 The owl sits huddling by himself, The cold has pierced his body through. 1883Century Mag. Aug. 487/2 Cozily huddling up to one another.
†7. To hurry in disorder or confusion. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xviii. 152 They will runne against things, and hudling forwards fall from high places. 1667Dryden & Newcastle Sir Martin Mar-all Epil., As country vicars, when the sermon's done, Run huddling to the benediction. 1707Rowe Gold. Verses Pythag. (R.), Fools huddle on, and always are in haste, Act without thought, and thoughtless words they waste. a1734North Examen iii. vii. (1740) 522 That the Judges..might huddle in giving their Judgments, and so the Cause look more foul on their Side. 1766[Anstey] Bath Guide xiii. 45 How the Misses did huddle, and scuddle, and run.
†8. Formerly, in the University of Cambridge, To go through in a hurried and slovenly way certain formal exercises in lieu of those regularly required for a degree. Obs.
1798A. Wall Senate-ho. Cerem. 112 If he has not kept the requisite exercises, (viz. two acts and two opponencies) he goes to the sophs' schools, and huddles for that part which he has not kept. At the huddleing the father of the college, a bachelor, and a soph, attend. 1841G. Peacock Stat. Cambridge 73 The term huddling not unhappily expressed the indecent accumulation of the..exercises which the candidates..were anciently required to perform.
▪ II. huddle, n.|ˈhʌd(ə)l|
[app. f. huddle v.]
1. a. A mass of things crowded together in hurried confusion; a conglomeration.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 24/1 Ill haps come by heapes and by huddels. 1633Rowley Match Mid-nt. iv. in Hazl. Dodsley XIII. 73 Randals fortunes comes tumbling in like lawyers' fees, huddle upon huddle. 1714Macky Journ. thro' Eng. (1723) (N.), The famous Stone-henge, one of the wonders of England..is a great huddle of large stones, placed in a circular form. 1841Blackw. Mag. L. 156 A mere huddle and conglomeration of chances. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 1 It gradually grew from a huddle of booths to a town. 1906Daily Chron. 5 Mar. 6/6 A really fine organic city and not a mere gigantic huddle of apartment dwellings.
b. A confused crowd of persons or animals.
1642Vind. King p. v, A seditious huddle of indigent people. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xvi. §132 In such a huddle and mixture of loose People of all conditions. 1742Fielding J. Andrews iv. xi, It frighted the women, who were all got in a huddle together, out of their wits. 1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 64 (1822) II. 94 The Walruses..which lie in gigantic huddles upon the ice fields. 1924W. M. Raine Troubled Waters viii. 79 Beyond the post office a great huddle of sheep was being driven forward. 1959Listener 26 Feb. 384/3 Stanley Spencer's ‘Temptation of St. Anthony’, with its huddle of precisely drawn nudes.
2. a. Confusion, disorder; confused utterance. b. Disorderly or indecent haste, hurry, bustle.
1606Chapman Gentlem. Usher Plays 1873 I. 271 O noble Crone, Now such a huddle and kettle neuer was. Ibid. 288 Nay, he speakes huddles still, lets slit his tongue. 1692tr. Sallust 149 The next day, the opinions of the Council being demanded in a huddle, and over-rul'd by the Consul. a1734North Lives I. 296 The service was performed..with more harmony and less huddle than I have known it. 1840Thackeray Crit. Rev. Wks. 1886 XXIII. 160 Introduced..not..for mere picturesque effect or ornamental huddle.
†c. A term at shovel-board: see quot. Obs.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 87/1 When the lieutenant and he [the earl] for their disport were plaieng at slidgrote or shoofleboord... By saint Bride lieutenant (quoth he) there is some mad game in that scroll; but fall how it will, this throw is for an huddle.
†3. A miserly old person; a hunks. Obs.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 44 So these old huddles hauing ouercharged their gorges with fancie, accompt al honest recreation meere folly. Ibid. 106 Though Curio be olde huddle and twang, ipse. Ibid. 133 God shield aunswered this olde huddle, I can haue two seruaunts of yat price. 1604Marston Malcontent (Mason), How does thy young wife, old huddle?
4. A close or secret conference; esp. in phr. to go into a huddle, to hold a secret conference, to consult specially (about something). colloq.
1929E. Looker White House Gang i. 13 The Gang was recruited, and..it went into a huddle, to confound all rules of deportment in high places. 1932Harper's Mag. Apr. 600 ‘When an agent comes,’ explains René, ‘we have a little conférence. We go into what you call a huddle, yes?’ 1934E. Linklater Magnus Merriman xi. 128 Your girl-friends'll need to go into a huddle to think up something to beat that one. 1938F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. 5 Sept. (1964) 93 I'm going into a huddle on this script and probably won't be able to write you again at length before Vassar starts. 1947J. Bertram Shadow of War 318 He went into a huddle with one of his minions. 1959‘A. Gilbert’ Third Crime Lucky iii. 49 If he writes in he wants to make some of what he never earned over to us there'll be a huddle. 1972M. Yorke Silent Witness v. 121 Then she got scared when he was missing and that's why she and Roy were in a worried huddle this morning.
5. Bridge. A period of meditation during which a player considers his next call or play.
1934Amer. Speech IX. 11/1 A huddle is a session of silent thought indulged in by a player either during the bidding or during play. 1964Official Encycl. Bridge 248/1 If the huddle is followed by a positive action, usually no harm is done to the opponents.
▪ III. † ˈhuddle, a. and adv. Obs.
[f. huddle n. or v.]
A. adj. Huddled, confused, congested.
1601Holland Pliny I. 162 Mowing with his mouth when hee spake,..in his huddle and thicke speech. 1698Revengeful Queen (N.), A suddain, huddle, indigested thought Rowls in my brain. 1713Steele Guardian No. 21 ⁋6 The huddle group of those who stand most distant.
B. adv. Confusedly; in a crowding mass; in disorderly haste.
1564Coverdale Lett. Martyrs 77 Al that was..tumultuously spoken, and..obiected of so many, whiche spake oftentimes hudle, so that one could not well heare an other. 1566Drant Horace Sat. iv. B vij b, He..woulde not move his foote withall, but huddle he would roule. c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears i. ii. in Archiv Stud. Neu. Spr. (1897) 308 Old men speake hudell many times on that note [cuckold]. 1600Holland Livy xxvii. xl. 658 All dangers come huddle together. 1601― Pliny 81 Then no order forward can be kept: the rest thereof shall be set downe huddle by heapes. 1606Wily Beguiled E ij b, I have suitors come huddle, twoes upon twoes. |