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单词 huh
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huhn.

Brit. //, U.S. //
Forms: 1800s– huh, 1800s hoo, 1800s hugh (East Anglian), 1800s hoh (East Anglian), 1900s– haw (Sussex), 1800s heugh, 1800s hoogh (Isle of Wight), 1900s– hough Brit. /huː/, U.S. /hu/.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: ahoo adv.
Etymology: < ahoo adv. (compare forms at that entry), arising from reanalysis as a noun phrase with the indefinite article (see a adj.), i.e. a hoo.
Chiefly English regional (now East Anglian).
Originally in all of a huh, all of one huh and variants, now chiefly in on the huh: askew, awry, aslant; lopsided, crooked. Cf. ahoo adv. 2.
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1826 W. N. Glascock Naval Sketch-bk. II. 30 There was his head, too, all of a hoo—chin topping to port..and his mouth all awry.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 9 If, as is frequently the case, the word [sc. ahuh] is preceded by the pronoun one, the a is dropped, and it is said to be all of one huh.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale All-of-a-heugh, all on one side.
1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 2 That ere wut rick is all of a hoogh.
1968 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. iii. 1044 A picture not hanging straight, is hanging..[Sussex] all one-haw.
1971 H. Orton & P. M. Tilling Surv. Eng. Dial. III. iii. 1194 A picture not hanging straight, is hanging..[Norfolk] on the huh, [Essex] all on the one huh, all on one huh.
2007 J. Page Salt (2008) iii. 21 The mud swelled and shrank round the house, dislodging the tiles on the roof and knocking the chimneypot on the huh, as they say in Norfolk.
2011 Eastern Daily Press (Norwich) (Nexis) 4 Jan. I..cannot even..put a shelf up ‘on the huh’ in my house.
2016 @RacheOlly 10 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) My christmas trees are ‘on the huh’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

huhint.

Brit. //, U.S. //
A natural utterance, expressing some suppressed feeling. Also as an expression of interrogation.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [interjection] > other specific cries or exclamations
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ouc1300
we13..
hac1320
how1377
how now?c1380
vaha1382
ha a!c1386
ha ha!c1386
hoa1400
ohoa1400
yowc1440
yoa1475
heh1475
hey ho?c1475
huffc1485
wemaya1500
whewa1500
wow1513
huffa?1520
gup?1528
ist1540
whow1542
hougha1556
whoo1570
good-now1578
ooh1602
phew1604
highday1606
huh1608
whoo-whoop1611
sessaa1616
tara1672
hegh1723
hip1735
waugha1766
whoofa1766
jee1786
goody1796
yaw1797
hech1808
whoo-ee1811
whizz1812
yah1812
soh1815
sirs1816
how1817
quep1822
soho1825
ow1834
ouch1838
pfui1838
suz1844
shoo1845
yoop1847
upsadaisy1862
houp-la1870
hooch1871
nu1892
ouff1898
upsy1903
oo-er1909
ooh-wee1910
eina1913
oops1921
whoopsie1923
whoops-a-daisy1925
hot-cha-cha1929
upsadaisy1929
walla1929
hotcha1931
hi-de-ho1936
po po po1936
ho-de-ho1941
oh, oh1944
oopsy1956
chingas1984
bambi2007
1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters iii. sig. E Ther's gold for thee; huh, let her want for nothing, M. Doctor.
1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) iv. xiii. 65 Huh! now would some Lovers think them-selves very unhappy.
1814 Manœuvering i. i Married! huh—is it marriage you're talking of?
1890 ‘O. Thanet’ Expiation ix. 166 A loud snort of contempt from the gallery betrayed that Hizzie had heard. ‘Huh!’ she bawled, ‘you yent gwine get killed up, not long's ye kin run!’
1924 Dial. Notes 5 270 Huh (surp., disg., enquiry).
1937 L. B. Murphy Social Behavior & Child Personality ii. 53 Agatha said, ‘Want to play in the sand box, Theodore, huh? Do you?’
1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely xxi. 169 Pretty trivial in my case, huh?
1948 F. Lockridge & R. Lockridge Pinch of Poison xvi. 151 ‘Listen, Mullins,’ Weigand pleaded. ‘Don't think, huh?’
1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 20 Aug. 7/2 ‘I could go back there, I mean some other time.’ ‘But not now, huh?’
1969 K. Amis Green Man iv. 182 God's purpose. Huh. I'm no more qualified than the next man to tell you what that is.
1970 Washington Post 30 Sept. D 4/2 ‘Oh boy that's just what he needs,’ he said, cheerlessly. ‘Tell him to take it easy, huh?’
1971 Black World Apr. 59 Hell, its all my fault, huh?
1972 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 17 94 Whatever its origin and history, huh? is currently in widespread use in the United States.
1972 Southerly 32 54 Because the fun part is over. They think. Huh!
1973 A. Price October Men ix. 126Huh!’ Macready snorted derisively.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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