hummien.
Dockers' colloquial.
See quot. 1887.
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1887 B. Potter in 19th Cent. Oct. 486 With timber, a growth on the back of the neck called a ‘hummie’, the result of long friction, is needful to enable a man to balance a plank [in discharging cargoes] with any degree of comfort.
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n.1887- make much menace
- make much of
- make much on
- make much way
- make muckle phrase about
- make music
- make music together
- make muster
- make my day
- make narration
- make neither head nor tail of
- make neither top nor tail of
- make neither top nor toe of
- make never strength of
- make new
- make nice
- make nice-nice
- make nicenice
- make no
- make no bones
- make no bones about
- make no conscience
- make no courtesy
- make no estimate of
- make no knobs