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单词 huddle
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huddlen.

/ˈhʌd(ə)l/
Etymology: apparently < huddle v.
1.
a. A mass of things crowded together in hurried confusion; a conglomeration.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > a disorderly collection
rabblea1398
hotchpotc1405
hotchpotchc1410
mishmashc1475
gaggle?1478
chaos?1550
humble-jumble1550
huddle1587
wilderness1594
lurry1607
hatterc1626
farragoa1637
bumble1648
higgledy-piggledy1659
jumble1661
clutter1666
hugger-mugger1674
litter1730
imbroglio1753
confusion1791
cludder1801
hurrah's nest1829
hotter1834
welter1857
muddle1863
splatter1895
shamble1926
1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. xxxvii. 24/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Ill haps come by heapes and by huddels.
1633 Match at Mid-night iv. sig. G4v Randalls fortunes comes tumbling in, like Lawyers Fees, hudole vpon huddle.
1724 J. Macky Journey through Eng. (ed. 2) II. iii. 34 The famous Stone-henge, one of the wonders of England..is a great huddle of large Stones, placed in a circular Form.
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 156 A mere huddle and conglomeration of chances.
1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 1 It gradually grew from a huddle of booths to a town.
1906 Daily Chron. 5 Mar. 6/6 A really fine organic city and not a mere gigantic huddle of apartment dwellings.
b. A confused crowd of persons or animals.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > confused
huddle1642
scrum1905
1642 Vindic. King p. v A seditious huddle of indigent people.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xvi. 560 In such a huddle and mixture of loose People of all conditions.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. xi. 260 It frighted the Women, who were all got in a huddle together, out of their Wits. View more context for this quotation
1820 L. Hunt Indicator No. 64 (1822) II. 94 The Walruses..which lie in gigantic huddles upon the ice fields.
1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters viii. 79 Beyond the post office a great huddle of sheep was being driven forward.
1959 Listener 26 Feb. 384/3 Stanley Spencer's ‘Temptation of St. Anthony’, with its huddle of precisely drawn nudes.
2.
Thesaurus »
a. Confusion, disorder; confused utterance.
b. Disorderly or indecent haste, hurry, bustle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste > disorderly
huddle1606
flurrya1774
fudder1866
spuffling1893
1606 G. Chapman Gentleman Vsher ii. sig. C O noble Crone, Now such a huddle and kettle neuer was.
1606 G. Chapman Gentleman Vsher iii. sig. D4v Nay, he speakes huddles still, lets slit his tongue.
1692 tr. Sallust Wks. 149 The next day, the opinions of the Council being demanded in a huddle, and over-rul'd by the Consul.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths I. 296 The service was performed..with more harmony and less huddle than I have known it.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Crit. Rev. in Wks. (1886) XXIII. 160 Introduced..not..for mere picturesque effect or ornamental huddle.
c. A term at shovel-board: see quot. 1577. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > shovelboard, etc. > [noun] > type of throw
huddle1577
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 84/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I When the Lieutenant and he [sc. the earl] for their disport were playing at slidegrote or shofleboorde... By S. Bryde, Lieutenant (quoth he) there is some madde game in that scrole: but fall how it will, this throwe is for an huddle.
3. A miserly old person; a hunks. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > old or churlish
chuffc1440
huddle1578
nabal1586
curmudgeon1587
cormullion1596
hunks1602
nabalite1612
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chuff-cat1653
codger1778
hunkster1842
sore-head1848
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 7 So these olde huddles hauing ouercharged their gorges with fancie, accompt all honest recreation meere follly.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 38v Though Curio bee olde huddle and twange, ipse.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 53 God sheild aunswered this olde huddle, I haue two seruauntes of that price.
1604 J. Marston Malcontent i. iii. sig. B2 How do's thy young wife old huddle?
4. A close or secret conference; esp. in to go into a huddle, to hold a secret conference, to consult specially (about something). colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] > private meeting
closeting1762
huddle1929
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > private or secret
rounOE
collationc1384
consultc1634
huddle1929
1929 E. Looker White House Gang i. 13 The Gang was recruited, and..it went into a huddle, to confound all rules of deportment in high places.
1932 Harper's Mag. Apr. 600 ‘When an agent comes,’ explains René, ‘we have a little conférence. We go into what you call a huddle, yes?’
1934 E. Linklater Magnus Merriman xi. 128 Your girl-friends'll need to go into a huddle to think up something to beat that one.
1938 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 5 Sept. (1964) 93 I'm going into a huddle on this script and probably won't be able to write you again at length before Vassar starts.
1947 J. Bertram Shadow of War 318 He went into a huddle with one of his minions.
1959 ‘A. Gilbert’ Third Crime Lucky iii. 49 If he writes in he wants to make some of what he never earned over to us there'll be a huddle.
1972 ‘M. Yorke’ Silent Witness v. 121 Then she got scared when he was missing and that's why she and Roy were in a worried huddle this morning.
5. Bridge. A period of meditation during which a player considers his next call or play.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > period of meditation
huddle1934
1934 Amer. Speech 9 11/1 A huddle is a session of silent thought indulged in by a player either during the bidding or during play.
1964 R. L. Frey & A. F. Truscott Official Encycl. Bridge 248/1 If the huddle is followed by a positive action, usually no harm is done to the opponents.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

huddleadj.adv.

Etymology: < huddle n. or huddle v.
Obsolete.
A. adj.
Huddled, confused, congested.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective]
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farraginary1538
puddled1559
confused1576
promiscuous1579
pell-mell1584
ravelleda1586
mingle-mangle1589
rumblingc1598
skimble-skamble1598
huddle1601
plundered1601
promiscual1602
jumbled1611
promiscous1656
bedevilled1755
helter-skelter1785
muddly1829
hugger-mugger1840
wildered1853
pied1870
deurmekaar1871
mixed-up1888
screwed-up1942
snafu1942
scrambled1951
untogether1969
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > crowded together > crowded together in disorderly way
huddle1601
huddled1644
shuffled1683
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 162 Mowing with his mouth when hee spake,..in his huddle and thicke speech.
1698 W. Philips Revengeful Queen iii. 25 A suddain, huddle, indigested thought Rowls in my brain.
1713 R. Steele in Guardian 4 Apr. 2/1 The Huddle Group of those who stand most distant.
B. adv.
Confusedly; in a crowding mass; in disorderly haste.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adverb]
pelly mellya1500
ribble-rabble?a1525
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perplexly1670
skimble-skamble1775
skimper-scamper1778
hodge-podge1848
hugger-mugger1880
rumble-jumble1887
muddledly1914
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb] > hastily or hurriedly > disorderly
huddlea1555
pell-mellc1586
helter-skelter1593
tumultuously1597
huddlingly1615
a1555 N. Ridley in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 77 Al that was..tumultuously spoken, &..obiected of so many, whiche spake oftentimes hudle, so that one could not well heare an other.
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Bvijv He..woulde not moue his foote withall, But, huddle he would roule.
c1580 tr. Bugbears i. ii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 98 308 Old men speake hudell many times on that note [cuckold].
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvii. xl. 658 All dangers come huddle together.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. iv. xii. 81 Then no order forward can be kept: the rest thereof shall be set downe huddle by heapes.
1606 Wily Beguilde 34 I haue suitors comes huddle, twoes vpon twoes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

huddlev.

/ˈhʌd(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1500s huddel, 1500s–1600s hudle, 1700s hudell.
Etymology: Huddle verb and noun are known only from the second half of the 16th cent.; the verb, which probably preceded the noun, has the form of a diminutive and iterative, perhaps ultimately from the Germanic root hud- , hūd- to cover (see hud n.1); compare hoder v., hudder-mudder n., also Low German hudern to cherish, shelter, as a hen her chickens, iterative of Low German hûden to hide. Senses 4b, 2c, come close to dialectal senses of German hudeln to do (work) hastily and carelessly, to scamp; compare hudelei slovenly work, scamping. But no satisfactory theory of relationship with these words can at present be offered. The history and order of the senses is in many respects obscure; see especially the early quots. under huddle adv. and huddling adj.
I. transitive.
1. To put or keep out of sight; to conceal or hide, as among a crowd or under a heap; to hush up. Obsolete.
ΘΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)]
heeleOE
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wryOE
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forhidec1000
overheleOE
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cover1340
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hulsterc1400
overclosec1400
concealc1425
shroud1426
blend1430
close1430
shadow1436
obumber?1440
mufflea1450
alaynec1450
mew?c1450
purloin1461
to keep close?1471
oversilec1478
bewrap1481
supprime1490
occulta1500
silec1500
smoor1513
shadec1530
skleir1532
oppressa1538
hudder-mudder1544
pretex1548
lap?c1550
absconce1570
to steek away1575
couch1577
recondite1578
huddle1581
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enshroud1582
mask1582
veil1582
abscondc1586
smotherc1592
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sheathe1594
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secret1595
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palliate1598
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overmaska1600
hugger1600
obscure1600
upwrap1600
undisclose1601
disguise1605
screen1611
underfold1612
huke1613
eclipsea1616
encavea1616
ensconcea1616
obscurify1622
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beclouda1631
pretext1634
covert1647
sconce1652
tapisa1660
shun1661
sneak1701
overlay1719
secrete1741
blank1764
submerge1796
slur1813
wrap1817
buttress1820
stifle1820
disidentify1845
to stick away1900
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 12 b To chop of the head of the sentence, and slyly huddle the rest [L. qui sententiæ caput abscindens astute reliqua subtices].
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxvi. 102 They..neither can of them selues, neither ought at my hand to be hudled vp in silence.
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxv. xix. 291 Time there, doth all in darke obliuion huddle.
a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) 285 The matter was hudled up, and little spoken of it.
1680 T. Otway Orphan iii. 30 I do not like this Marriage Hudl'd i'th' dark and done at too much Venture.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 2. ⁋15 His merit may pass without notice, huddled in the variety of things.
1795 J. Wolcot Wks. (1812) III. 329 Huddle up the News.
2.
a. To pile or heap up confusedly; to crowd together closely and unceremoniously. (In earlier use the sense was sometimes simply, To jumble, mix up in confusion.)
ΘΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > crowd together > in a disorderly manner
hoderc1330
clotter1537
pester1570
huddle1579
huddle1600
clutterc1610
lumber1678
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 229 She tolde me..that I was duller than a great thawe, huddleing iest vpon iest. View more context for this quotation
1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood vii. xi. 252 This Genealogie is in this partie much hudled.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Huddle, to confound or mingle things together, after a confused manner.
1897 H. Caine Christian i. x. 45 The furniture was huddled about in disorder.
b. Also with together, up.
ΘΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > crowd together > in a disorderly manner
hoderc1330
clotter1537
pester1570
huddle1579
huddle1600
clutterc1610
lumber1678
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 63/1 That matters might not be huddeled and scuffled vppe together confusedly, and without order.
1581 W. Charke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iv. Ee iij b You confound and huddle them together.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. vi. 15 A heap of wildernesses hudled up together.
a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 74 Those..Writers..huddle together what ever they meet with in former Authors.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. v. 376 The matter would seem to be huddled up in this manner merely to suppress discoveries.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 122 A bullet might easily reach them, if huddled together in a flock.
1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. xii. 211 Huddling together in grotesque chaos things which are utterly diverse.
c. To contract or draw (oneself) together ‘all of a heap’; to coil up unceremoniously.
ΘΠ
the world > space > relative position > posture > act of drawing body into compact form > drawn into compact form [verb (transitive)]
shrinkc1374
shrug1603
mitch1612
huddle1755
scrunch1844
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. xv. 433 He chose his ground, on which he huddled himself up, and enjoyed a most profound sleep.
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 104 That at least he might not die huddled up like a cow.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped iv. 36 He lay as he had fallen, all huddled.
3.
a. To push or thrust in a disorderly mass or heap, into, out of (etc.) some place.
ΘΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push > in a disorderly manner
poach1528
shuffle1567
huddle1655
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > crowd together > in a disorderly manner > into or out of some place
huddle1655
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 164 The obscurity of his burial (huddled into his grave at Langley).
1808 Salmagundi 25 Jan. 406 To white-wash my room and put things in order: a phrase which..means little else than huddling every thing into holes and corners.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xix. 324 We were huddled out like a flock of sheep, by a file of soldiers with loaded muskets.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. II. 292 They huddled the king's body into a postchaise.
1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 47 Reform bills..are huddled or juggled through a House of fretful or feverish senators.
b. with on: To put on (clothes) hurriedly and ‘all of a heap’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > put on > in hasty or careless manner
warpa1400
to throw ona1450
slip?a1513
slip1590
to steal on1649
huddle1697
slive1820
scuffle1844
1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse ii. 29 So huddle on my Cloaths, and get drest by One.
1709 M. Prior Hans Carvel 34 At Twelve She rose, with much ado Her Cloaths were huddl'd on by Two.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. iii. 65 The Friar..had huddled a friar's frock over his green cassock.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ix. 225 You must positively go back into your dressing-room, and huddle your things on as fast as you can.
1868 A. Helps Realmah II. xv. 193 His clothes seem to be huddled on anyhow.
4.
a. To drive or push hurriedly, and without order or ceremony; to hurry (a person or thing). ? Obsolete.
ΘΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > impel or drive animates > forcibly or unceremoniously
jostle1602
huddle1649
kick1678
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > do, deal with, acquire, etc., quickly [verb (transitive)] > cause to be done rapidly > hasten or hurry > with disorder or confusion
huddle1649
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxiv. 192 I shall huddle him as he does Prayers.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 74 You have hudled your Book too soon to the Presse.
1685 Earl of Rochester Valentinian iii. iii Trembling through Terror lest he come too late They huddle his Dispatch while at the Gate.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 60 Let him forecast his Work with timely care, Which else is huddl'd, when the Skies are fair. View more context for this quotation
b. with over, through: To hurry through, run over, or perform in a hurried slovenly way.
ΘΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > perform without accuracy or thoroughness
to toy with ——1563
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slubber1592
slobber1630
huddle1648
to shuffle over, through1656
slobber1765
slattern1781
scuffle1785
slur1857
perfunctorize1866
smatter1881
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > do, deal with, acquire, etc., quickly [verb (transitive)] > do hurriedly and carelessly > go through or over
to run over ——1577
slubber1592
huddle1648
scuffle1844
slur1857
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 102 To continue in the Church while a Masse is briefly hudled over.
1696 tr. A. Duquesne New Voy. E.-Indies 167 We presently huddled over a few prayers, according to custom.
1799 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 261 I have suffered the post hour to come so nearly on me, that I must huddle over what I have more than appears in the public papers.
1885 Manch. Examiner 6 Mar. 5/4 The solemnities had to be huddled through at express speed.
c. with up: To hurry the completion of; to work up, finish up, or compile, in haste and without proper care; to botch up hastily.
ΘΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > do, deal with, acquire, etc., quickly [verb (transitive)] > do hurriedly and carelessly > make, compile, or concoct
to shuffle up1532
rash1570
huddle1579
to knock upc1580
to clap upa1616
to run up1686
to knock out1856
to knock off1886
whang1935
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > perform without accuracy or thoroughness > construct or compile carelessly
to clap upc1530
ruffle1533
huddle1579
to knock off1886
1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 59 They were hudlid and as you know bunglid upp in more haste then good speede.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iii. 147 Him~selfe [Vitellius]..hudled up the election of officers [L. festinare comitia].
1692 J. Ray Dissol. World (1732) Pref. 15 Too hasty in huddling up and tumbling out of Books.
1721 J. Swift Corr. in Wks. (1841) II. 556 I was in fear lest the post should be gone, and so..huddled up without thinking of the date.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 412 And reading..Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
1839 T. B. Macaulay Gladstone in Ess. (1860) II. 440 She sprang from a compromise huddled up between the eager zeal of reformers and the selfishness of greedy, ambitious, and time-serving politicians.
5. To hug. Now dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)]
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freeOE
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umgripea1300
to take in (also into, on) one's armsc1300
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cwtch1965
a1650 Ld. Barnard & Lit. Musgrave 24 in Furniv. Percy Folio I. 121 But lie still, lie still, litle Musgreue, and huddle me from the cold.
c1665 in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII. 366 But huddle and cuddle, wee'l toy and wee'll kiss.
1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. (E.D.S.) Huddle, to embrace.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Huddle, (1) to embrace, to squeeze, to hug, to cuddle.
II. intransitive.
6. To gather or flock in a congested mass; to crowd together unceremoniously; to nestle closely in a heap. Also with together, up.
ΘΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > crowd together > in a disorderly manner
felterc1400
shroud1530
huddle1600
pig1637
jug1653
hotter1805
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 27 Glauncing an eye of pitty on his losses that haue of late so hudled on his backe. View more context for this quotation
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. v. 292 Different seasons would have hudled upon each other. View more context for this quotation
a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) 515 The people came huddling out of the severall Cities..to salute him.
1821 Ld. Byron Vision Judgm. xxvi The very cherubs huddled all together.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xv. 24 The cattle huddled on the lea. View more context for this quotation
1854 M. Howitt Pict. Cal. Seasons 528 The owl sits huddling by himself, The cold has pierced his body through.
1883 Cent. Mag. Aug. 487/2 Cozily huddling up to one another.
7. To hurry in disorder or confusion. Obsolete.
ΘΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > be or become confused or disordered [verb (intransitive)]
huggerc1547
confuse1630
huddle1646
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > hasten or hurry > with disorder or confusion
huddle1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xviii. 152 They will runne against things, and hudling forwards fall from high places. View more context for this quotation
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all Epil. sig. A4v As Country Vicars, when the Sermon's done, Run hudling to the Benediction.
1707 N. Rowe Golden Verses Pythagoras (R.) Fools huddle on, and always are in haste, Act without thought, and thoughtless words they waste.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. 522 That the Judges..might huddle in giving their Judgments, and so the Cause look more foul on their Side.
1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide xiii. ii. 90 How the Misses did huddle and scuddle, and run.
8. Formerly, in the University of Cambridge, To go through in a hurried and slovenly way certain formal exercises in lieu of those regularly required for a degree. Obsolete.
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1798 A. Wall Acct. Ceremonies Senate House Univ. Cambr. 112 If he has not kept the requisite exercises, (viz. two acts and two opponencies) he goes to the sophs' schools, and huddles for that part which he has not kept. At the huddleing the father of the college, a bachelor, and a soph, attend.
1841 G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. 73 The term huddling not unhappily expressed the indecent accumulation of the..exercises which the candidates..were anciently required to perform.
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