Hamann.

1645 R. Browne Ld. Digbies Designe to betray Abingdon 7 When their blinded Party shall..see him in his colours, they will at last pity..a Prince that makes use of such a wicked head..: And..may know who is that Haman which blasts Mordecai's petition.

1647 Mercurius Melancholicus 11–17 Sept. 13 What is honour, but another Haman? This day a companion with a King, on the morrow hanging on the gallowes.

1650 J. Trapp Solomonis Παναρετος Isa. lxi. 2 All Hamans be hanged up at that feast-royal, at the last day especially.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 295 The whig Captain, Balfour..swore..that if the garrison was not gi'en ower the morn by daybreak, he would hing up the young lord, poor thing, as high as Haman.

1842 R. H. Barham Merchant of Venice in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 57 I'll hang you like Haman!

1846 Lady Montefiore Jewish Man. vii. 123 Haman's Fritters.

1949 Housewife May 50/1 The pudding that we ate..on Purim was appropriately called Hamaan's Ears—lovely crisp flaps of thin pastry sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.

1961 Times 23 Dec. 9/1 ‘Haman's ears’: a cake eaten by Jewish people at the festival of Purim, to commemorate the downfall of Haman, their persecutor.

1881 H. Adler in 19th Cent. Dec. 813 Prof. Goldwin Smith renews his onslaughts upon Jews and Judaism with an acerbity and virulence which I may be permitted to term Hamanic.