† huxn.
Obsolete. rare.
Mockery, scorn, derision. (Only Old English and early Middle English.)
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OE Genesis 2384 Heo gearum frod þone hleoðorcwyde husce belegde.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 513/11 Per hironiam, þurh hucx.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14871 Hu Bruttissce biscopes hine grætte mid huxes.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14404 Hux and hoker me warp him on.
Compounds
hux-word. (Cf. Old Saxon hoscword.)
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OE Andreas (1932) 669 Huscworde ongan þurh inwitðanc ealdorsacerd herme hyspan, hordlocan onspeon, wroht webbade.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10819 Mid heore hux-worden [c1300 Otho hokere wordes].
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