huxen
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English *hoxene, *huxene (only attested as hokschyne, with alteration after schyne), from Old English hōhsinu, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hasinu, from Proto-Germanic *hanhasinwō, from *hanhaz (“heel”) + *senawō (“sinew”). Compare hough, hox, and sinew.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhʌksən/
Noun
huxen (plural huxens)
- (West Country, obsolete) The hough; the back of the hip.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “[Amatory Odes.] The Beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volume I, London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC, page 81:
- Or, sweet lady, reach to me, / The abdomen of a bee; / Commend a crickets-hip / Or his huckson, to my scrip.
- 1876, Oliver Madox-Brown, “The Dwale Bluth”, in William Rosetti, F. Hueffer, editors, The Dwale Bluth, Hebditch's Legacy, and Other Literary Remains, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 68:
- "Ers stratted‡ ter th' huxens§! Eh! come an' lack vor yersel," she screamed in a voice made inarticulate by her shrill and immodest laughter, as the unfortunate man waded at last out of the black water, and stood gazing dolefully at his dirty stockings and shoes.
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