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huff-cap
huff-cap, a. and n. Obs. or arch. (ˈhʌfkæp) [f. huff v. + cap n., i.e., ‘that huffs or raises the cap’.] A. adj. 1. Of liquor: That goes to the head, heady, strong. Obs. exc. Hist.1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe 74 The huffe-cappest drink in that house you shal be sure of alwayes. 1630 J. Taylor (Water P.)... Oxford English Dictionary
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huff
▪ I. huff, v. (hʌf) [Huff vb. and n. appear late in the 16th c.; the vb. being somewhat the earlier. The formation was evidently imitative of the sound of a blast of air through an orifice: cf. the earlier use of huff int., and the parallel puff. In Preston's Cambyses (c 1570), Huff, Ruff, and Snuff... Oxford English Dictionary
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hum
▪ I. hum, v.1 (hʌm) Also 4–7 humme, 5 home, 6 homme. [Known from end of 14th c.; echoic; cf. MHG. hummen, mod.G. dial. hummen, hommen, early mod.Du. (Kilian) hummen = hemmen to hem, emit voice; also bum v., and Ger. summen, brummen, Du. brommen, expressing the same or similar sounds, all with the ch... Oxford English Dictionary
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mad
▪ I. † mad, n.1 Obs. (? exc. dial.) [var. of mathe.] 1. A maggot or grub; esp. the larva of the blowfly, which causes a disease in sheep. Also pl., the disease so caused.1573 Tusser Husb. l. (1878) 109 Sheepe wrigling taile hath mads without faile. 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 6 Lambes that wriggl... Oxford English Dictionary
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cap
▪ I. cap, n.1 (kæp) Forms: 1 (cappa), cæppe, 3 keppe, 4–6 cappe, (5 cape), 5–7 capp, 6– cap. [OE. cæppe, a. late L. cappa ‘cap’ (It. cappa, Pr., Sp., Pg. capa, ONF. and Picard cape, F. chape, all meaning ‘cloak, cape, or cope’). Isidore, a. 636, has (xix. xxxi. 3, De ornamentis capitis feminarum) ‘c... Oxford English Dictionary
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