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▪ I. hon1|ɒn|
abbrev. of honourable, honorable.
1721in D. Wilkins Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ List of Subscribers, The Hon. Henry Booth of the Middle Temple, Esq. 1777Jrnls. Continental Congress (U.S.) X. 10 The following Gentlemen were chosen, viz. Hon. John Hancock, Samuel Adams, [etc.]. 1861T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iii. 39 The fourth man of the breakfast⁓club, the Hon. Piers St. Cloud, was in his third year. 1873‘Mark Twain’ & Warner Gilded Age (1874) xxxiii. 304 Mr. O'Riley, still bearing the legislative ‘Hon.’ attached to his name. 1914W. S. Churchill in World Crisis (1923) I. viii. 186 Why cannot the right hon. and learned Gentleman (Sir Edward Carson) say boldly, [etc.]. 1922Joyce Ulysses 379 Over against the Rt. Hon. Mr. Justice Fitzgibbon's door. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. iii. xiv. 182 One Hon. Alvin Belknap, of Belknap and Jephson, of this same city. 1938N. Marsh Artists in Crime ii. 13 He's an Hon., you know, and old Lord Pilgrim is doddering to the grave. 1945N. Mitford Pursuit of Love ii. 14, I was a Hon, since my father, like theirs, was a lord. 1962‘M. Innes’ Connoisseur's Case v. 54 So old Mrs. Coulson..was an Hon?
▪ II. hon2|ɒn|
abbrev. of honorary a.
1840Wiltshire Topographical Soc. Laws & Regulations, Members of the Wiltshire Topographical Society... Geo. Alexander, Esq. Architect, London, Hon. Sec. 1876Monthly Packet Feb. notices p. [5] Your correspondent could obtain further information from the Hon. Sec. 1957R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. i. ii. 34 Members wishing to resign..are requested to notify the hon. secretary before January 1st. 1966J. Betjeman High & Low 44 (title) The Hon. Sec.
▪ III. hon3|hʌn|
colloq. abbrev. of honey n. (sense 5).
1906Dialect Notes III. 141 Hon', sweetheart, darling, baby. ‘Going to school, hon'?’ Very common in addressing children of a tender age. a1911D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. ix. 155 ‘Never mind, hon,’ he said... ‘My, but you're purty!’ 1953Fortune July 158/2 She saw I was reading. ‘What you got there, hon?’ she asked me. 1954P. Highsmith Blunderer (1956) xxviii. 201 ‘Let's go, hon.’ Bill often proposed leaving before his wife did. 1959[see darl]. |