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Haman|ˈheɪmən|
1. The name of the chief minister of Ahasuerus who was hanged on the gallows prepared for Mordecai, as related in the Book of Esther, used allusively (phr. to hang as high as Haman). So Haˈmanic a.
1644R. 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. 1647Mercurius Melanchol. No. 3. 13 What is honour, but another Haman? This day a companion with a King, on the morrow hanging on the gallowes. 1650J. Trapp Comm. O.T. Isa. lxi. 2 All Hamans be hanged up at that feast-royal, at the last day especially. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxvii, 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. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg. 2nd Ser. 57 I'll hang you, like Haman! 1881H. 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.
2. Haman's ears, formerly Haman's fritters, fritters or cakes eaten by the Jews at the festival of Purim.
1846‘A Lady’ Jewish Man. vii. 123 Haman's Fritters. 1949Housewife 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. 1961Times 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. |