Hughie
/ˈhjuːi
/noun Australian /NZ informal
An imaginary being held to be responsible for the weather: more rain next week please, Hughie!...
- May the Weather-god Hughie rain on our BBQs.
- Hughie, as you probably know, is the weather god, and this is a warning to those who go sailing: Beware of Hughie.
Phrases
send her (or it) down, Hughie
Origin
Early 20th century: diminutive of the given name Hugh. The phrase send her down, Hughie may have developed from the British variant send it down, David, which dates from the 1920s.
Rhymes
- Cook, Captain James
- cook-chill
- Cook County
- Cooke, Alistair
- Cooke, Jay
- cooker
- cookery
- pre-incarnation
- pre-incline
- pre-indicate
- pre-industrial
- preinfinitival
- pre-inform
- pre-instal
- pre-install
- pre-instruct
- pre-instruction
- pre-intended
- pre-interpret
- preinterpretation
- pre-interview
- pre-intimation
- pre-intone
- preinvasive
- preiotated