Hughien.
/ˈhjuːi/, U.S. /ˈ(h)jui/, Australian English /ˈhjuːi/, New Zealand English /ˈhjuːi/ Australian and New Zealand slang.
The ‘god’ of weather, especially in send her down, Hughie!
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > atmospheric agencies or powers > supposed controller of weather
Clerk of the Weather1831
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Hughie1937
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 209/1 New Zealanders and Australians say send her down, Hughie!
1958 Tararua 27 The derisive phrases, ‘Send it down, Hughie’ and ‘Let it come down, Hughie’, go back to early in this century and are variants of the British military catch-phrase ‘Send it down, David’... St. Hugh has long been associated with rain.
1962 Austral. Women's Weekly Suppl. 24 Oct. 3/2 Come on, Huey, send the waves up.
1967 J. Cleary Long Pursuit vii. 151 ‘Good on you, Hughie,’ he said gratefully and with true religion... Hughie was the Australian working man's vernacular for the Lord.
1971 N.Z. Listener 19 Apr. 57/1 Well, that night Hughie sent it down, a nor' wester followed by a southerly buster.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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