单词 | huh |
释义 | huhn. 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. ΚΠ 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. A natural utterance, expressing some suppressed feeling. Also as an expression of interrogation. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [interjection] > other specific cries or exclamations oeOE heya1225 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. 126 ‘Huh!’ Macready snorted derisively. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826int.1608 |
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