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hulch
† hulch, n. and a. Obs. [Origin obscure. The identity of meaning between hulch, hulch-back, hulch-backed, and hunch, hunch-back, hunch-backed, suggests that the two groups are connected; but the relations between them are at present undetermined. That they are mere phonetic variants seems to be nega...
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hulchy
† ˈhulchy, a. Obs. or dial. Also 8 hulgy. [f. hulch n. + -y.] Humpy, hump-backed.1632 Sherwood, Hulchie, gibbeux. a 1693 Urquhart Rabelais iii. xvii. 142 The uneven shrugging of her hulchy Shoulders. 1768 Ross Helenore 35 (Jam.) An ugly hulgie⁓backed, cankered wasp. Ibid. 78 And of a worldly hulgy⁓b...
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hulck-backed
† hulck-backed, a. Obs. rare—1. [perh. an error for hulch-backed; but cf. huck-backed, s.v. huck n.1; also hulk n.2 4.] = hulch-backed.1656 W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §289. 79 They that are bottle-nosed: also the hulck-backed, swoln-throated.
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hunch
▪ I. hunch, v. (hʌn(t)ʃ) Also 7 hunsh. [Of obscure origin: but cf. hinch v. If sense 3 belongs to the same word as 1 and 2 (which is doubtful), the sense-development may have been ‘to thrust or shoot out’, ‘to cause to stick out’, and hence ‘to form a projection or protuberance’. It is noteworthy th...
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hutch
▪ I. hutch, n. (hʌtʃ) Forms: 4–6 huche, (4 houche, 4–5 hucch(e, hoche, 5 husche, huch), 5–7 hutche, (6 hotche), 5– hutch. [ME. huche, hucche, a. F. huche (13th c. in Littré; also huge 12–13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.):—med.L. hūtica (‘cista vulgo Hutica dicta’, 11th c. in Du Cange): ulterior etymology obsc...
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poke
▪ I. poke, n.1 Now chiefly dial. (pəʊk) Forms: α. (3) 4– poke; also 5–7 pooke, 6–7 (9 dial.) poake, 7– poak; Sc. 5 poyke, 5–6 poik, 6 polk. β. Sc. and north. dial. 5 pok, 5–6 pokke, 7 pocke, 8–9 pock. (9 dial. puok, puock, pooak, pwok(e, pwoak; also pook, pouk, powk: Eng. Dial. Dict.) [Not in OE.: M...
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which, a. and pron. (hwɪtʃ) Forms: see below. [OE. hwelc, hwilc, hwylc corresp. to OFris. hwelik, hwel(e)k, hwek, hulk, huk, hok (Fris. wolk, wæk, huk, etc.), OS. hwilîc, MLG. welik, welk, MDu. welc, (LG., Du. welk), OHG. *hwalîh, uualîh, hwelîh, welîh, -ich, -eh (MHG. welh, welch, G. welch), Goth. ...
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