单词 | all of one huh |
释义 | > as lemmasall of one huh Originally in all of a huh, all of one huh and variants, now chiefly in on the huh: askew, awry, aslant; lopsided, crooked. Cf. ahoo adv. 2. ΚΠ 1826 W. N. Glascock Naval Sketch-bk. II. 30 There was his head, too, all of a hoo—chin topping to port..and his mouth all awry. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 9 If, as is frequently the case, the word [sc. ahuh] is preceded by the pronoun one, the a is dropped, and it is said to be all of one huh. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale All-of-a-heugh, all on one side. 1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 2 That ere wut rick is all of a hoogh. 1968 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. iii. 1044 A picture not hanging straight, is hanging..[Sussex] all one-haw. 1971 H. Orton & P. M. Tilling Surv. Eng. Dial. III. iii. 1194 A picture not hanging straight, is hanging..[Norfolk] on the huh, [Essex] all on the one huh, all on one huh. 2007 J. Page Salt (2008) iii. 21 The mud swelled and shrank round the house, dislodging the tiles on the roof and knocking the chimneypot on the huh, as they say in Norfolk. 2011 Eastern Daily Press (Norwich) (Nexis) 4 Jan. I..cannot even..put a shelf up ‘on the huh’ in my house. 2016 @RacheOlly 10 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) My christmas trees are ‘on the huh’. < as lemmas |
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