Reverse Dictionary: HU – HUMN

HUBBUB – nouns
– CALEEVER a caper, frolic, antic; a hubbub, a noisy game …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– GARBOIL † confusion, disturbance, disorder, tumult, uproar; a brawl, hubbub, commotion …1548 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– HABBLE confusion, tumult, uproar, disturbance, hubbub …1795 Sc.
– HAY-BAY a hubbub, an uproar; a commotion, a disturbance …1805 Eng. dial.
– HEELIEGOLEERIE confusion, hubbub, noise, a to-do, bustle …1819 Sc.
– HEY-BEY a hubbub, an uproar; a commotion, a disturbance …1805 Eng. dial.
– HUBBISTEW a hubbub, stir, tumult; a flurry, excitement …1898 Sc.
– LARUM a tumultuous noise; a hubbub, an uproar …a1533
– LURRY † a confusion of voices; hubbub, outcry …a1676 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– ORATION a confused noise or uproar; a clamour, disturbance; a hubbub; a fuss; noisy public talk or rumour …1828 Eng. dial.
– POB-BOB a state of confusion, a hubbub …1898 Sc.
– ROWDY-DOW a disturbance; an uproar, a hubbub; a boisterous noise; a bitter quarrel …1872
– TARTAR a disturbance, noise, hubbub …1905 Sc.
– THIRAW a hubbub …1899 Ireland
– TINTAMARRE * a loud and confused noise, uproar, clamour, racket, din, hubbub …1567
– TOW-ROW an uproar, a hubbub, a noisy disturbance; a din, a racket …1877 orig. Eng. dial.
 
HUCKSTER – person
– ARAB a huckster; a street peddler of vegetables and fruits …1935 Amer. dial.
– ARABBER a huckster; a street peddler of vegetables and fruits …1942 Amer. dial.
– BADGER † one who buys corn and other commodities and carries them elsewhere to sell; an itinerant dealer who acts as a middleman between producer (farmer, fisherman, etc.) and consumer; a cadger, hawker, or huckster …a1500 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– CADGER a carrier, a huckster, a hawker of small wares …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HABERDASHERESS a female haberdasher of small wares; a female huckster …1702
– HAGGLER 1. an itinerant dealer; a huckster; a peddler …1602
2. a middleman in the vegetable markets; a huckster or forestaller of green produce …1851
– HIGGLER an itinerant dealer; especially a carrier or huckster who buys up poultry and dairy produce, and supplies in exchange petty commodities from the shops in town …1637
– PALTERER, PALTRER an equivocator; a shuffler; one who plays fast and loose; a haggler, a huckster; one who acts evasively …1589
– TAPPER † a retailer; a huckster …1478-9 Sc. 
huckster – verbs
– ARAB to go huckstering …1948 Amer. dial.
– CAUPONATE † to deal like a huckster with; to traffic in for the sake of gain …1653
 
HUDDLE – verbs
– CRONK to crouch, to squat down; to sit huddled up in a slinking or crouching way …1847 Eng. dial.
– MIMP to crouch, to sit huddled up or crouched together …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MUG to crowd, or huddle together in a confined space …1878 UK sl.
– NITHER to shrink or huddle, as with cold; to be shivery, to tremble …1896 Sc. 
– OOR to crouch or shiver with cold, to huddle …1880 Sc.
– PIG TOGETHER to huddle, live, or sleep together, esp. in a crowded or disorderly way or in dirty conditions …1637 colloq.
– SCREEDLE to cower or huddle over the fire …1746 Eng. dial.
– SCRIFF to shrink together; to crouch; to huddle together …1894 Eng. dial.
– SCROOCH UP to huddle up, to crowd together …1927 Amer. dial.
– THRUTCH to crowd, to press, to squeeze, to huddle together …1874 Eng. dial.
 
HUDDLED – adjectives
– RUMBUSTICAL huddled together …1877 Eng. dial.
huddled – nouns
– MISHMASHERIE anything in a confused or huddled state …1825 Sc.  
 
HUE – nouns
– BLEE colour, hue …c888 arch.
– TAINT † colour, hue, tint; tinge; dye …1567
– TINCT colour, hue, tint; colouring matter, dye …1602 now only poetic
– TINCTURE * hue, colour; a tinge, tint …1477
 
HUFF – nouns
– CREAM PUFF a huff; a fit of petty annoyance …1985 Sc. rhyming sl.
– MIFF a slight quarrel or misunderstanding; a tiff; a fit of ill-humour, pettishness; a huff …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
huff – verbs 
– SNUDGE to sulk, to get into a huff …B1900 Eng. dial.
 
HUFFY – adjectives
– HIGHTY-TIGHTY petulant, huffy, easily offended …1848
– ON ONE’S EAR indignant, angry; in a huff; broadly, in an uproar …1871 Amer. sl.
– STRUNTY short-tempered, easily offended, sulky, out of humour, pettish, huffy …1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
HUG, HUGGING – nouns
– BROKEN MUG a hug …1940s US rhyming sl.
– LOVE-UP an act of caressing, hugging, etc. …1953 sl.
– SCOTCH GRAVAT a hug or cuddle …1969 Sc.
– SCOTCH MUFFLER a hug or cuddle …1969 Sc.
– THRIST a squeeze, a hug …1892 Sc.
– TRIST a squeeze, a hug …1892 Sc.
hug – verbs
– ACCOLL † to throw the arms around the neck of; to embrace, to hug …1340
– CLIP to clasp with the arms, to embrace, to hug …OE arch. & Eng. dial.
– HALSE † to embrace; to hug; to take in the arms …a1300 obs. exc. Sc.
– HAUSE to embrace; to hug; to take in the arms …1829 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HAWSE to embrace; to hug; to take in the arms …1829 Sc.
– HUDDLE to hug or embrace a woman; possibly to coit a woman …18C Brit.
– HUGGLE † to hug, to embrace, to cuddle ..1583 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– THRIST to thrust, to push; to press, to squeeze, to hug; to wring …1838 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TRIST to thrust, to push; to press, to squeeze, to hug; to wring …1838 Sc.
 
HUGE – adjectives
– AWESOME prodigious, huge; remarkable, striking …1879
– BABYLONIAN huge, gigantic, large …1821
– BABYLONIC huge, gigantic, large …1853
– BANGING large, huge …1746 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BIG-COCK big, huge …1965 US sl.
– CYCLOPEAN, CYCLOPIAN monstrous, gigantic, huge; single, or large and round, like the one eye of a Cyclops …1641
– ELEPHANTIC * pert. to or resembling an elephant; huge, ponderous …1598
– ELEPHANTINE resembling an elephant in size or strength, huge …1630
– GIGANTINE † large, huge, gigantic …1664
– HORSE-FUCKING huge …a1968 US sl.
– HUMANGOUS enormous, outsized, huge …1960s sl., orig. US
– HUMONGOID enormous, outsized, huge …1960s sl., orig. US
– HUMONGOUS enormous, outsized, huge, very large …1968 sl., orig. US
– HUMUNGO enormous, outsized, huge …1960s sl., orig. US
– HUMUNGOUS enormous, outsized, huge, very large …1968 sl., orig. US
– IMMANE monstrous in size or strength; huge, vast, enormous, tremendous …1615 arch.
– LAMMING huge, great, violent …1816 Eng. dial.
– LEVIATHAN huge, monstrous …1624
– LEVIATHANIC huge as a leviathan …1848
– MOBY large, huge; fat, obese …1965 US college sl.
– MONDO great in size, amount, prominence, or degree; big, huge; hence, extraordinary …1968 Amer. sl.
– MONGO huge, big …1974 Amer. sl.
– RAMMING very big, huge …1864 Eng. dial.
– RAPPING † uncommonly big or striking, enormous, huge …1658 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RHINOCERICAL huge, large …B1900 sl.
– STRAMMING huge, great …Bk1904 colloq.
– TITANIAN large, huge, colossal, gigantic …1667
– UGLY huge; uncouth …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
huge – nouns
– LOMBARD something huge and spectacular …1975 Amer. dial.
– RAMMER anything very large; a huge, uncouth thing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
huge – person
– BEHEMOTH a huge or monstrous person …Bk2014
 
HUGELY – adverbs
– FOR AFRICA hugely, greatly, in large amounts …1970 S. Afr. sl.
– IMMANELY hugely, monstrously, inhumanly …1612 arch.
 
HUGENESS – nouns
– IMMANITY * great size or severity; enormity, hugeness, immensity …1586
 
HULKING – person
– CAMEL a great awkward hulking fellow …1606
– GALLIGANTER a hulking, big woman …Bk1882 Eng. dial.
– GALLOOT, GALOOT a man, esp. if hulking, stupid, boorish, foolish, clumsy, worthless or otherwise objectionable; a big, awkward or uncouth person …1818 UK
– LABLOLLY a lazy, clumsy, hulking fellow – a ne’er-do-well – a silly person …1876 Eng. dial. 
– LOBSCOUSE an awkward, hulking fellow …1895 Amer. dial.
 
HULKY – person
– PANGUTS † an unwieldy, fat-bellied fellow; a fat, hulky, lazy fellow ..1617
 
HULLABALOO – nouns
– TAIRDY a din, clamour, hullabaloo …1930 Sc.
 
HUM, HUMMING – nouns
– BIM the act of humming or buzzing …Bk1911 Sc. 
– BIMMER anything that hums or buzzes …Bk1911 Sc. 
– THRUM a drumming noise; a musical sound; a hum …1818 Sc.
– VUNG † a buzzing or humming sound …Bk1905 Sc.
hum, humming – verbs
– BIM to hum, to buzz …Bk1911 Sc. 
– BINNER to cause a whirring or humming sound; to buzz …Bk1911 Sc. 
– BOMBILATE * to hum or buzz like a bee, or a top when spinning …1854
– BYSS † to sing or hum children to sleep …1440
– LALDER to sing in a loud, noisy manner; to hum …1856 Eng. dial.
– MOAN to hum, usually in chorus, as part of a church service …1942 Amer. dial.
– SUM †* to hum softly …c1440
– THRUM to strum, to play on a musical instrument; to drum, to make a drumming nose; to hum, to croon, to drone …1865 Sc.
– TOODLE to hum or sing in a low tone, as to a baby …1865
– YAMMER to talk or hum indistinctly; to stammer …1881 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ZOON to make a humming or buzzing sounds; to cause to make such a sound …1880 Amer. dial.
 
HUMAN – adjectives
– ADAMITE descended from Adam; human …1860
– MANKIND † human …1584
– MANLY † belonging to human beings; human …c1200
– MANNISH † belonging to the human species; characteristic of mankind; human …c888
– PAN-HUMAN pert. to all human beings …1900
human – nouns 
– ADAMHOOD * human nature; manhood …1828
– MANHEAD † the state of being human; the condition of belonging to humanity; human nature …c1220
– MANKIN † the human race; mankind; a race of men, a people; human nature …971
– MANKIND † the nature of man; human nature …a1300
– MANLIHEAD † the condition of being human …c1250
– MANNESS † human nature …a1225
– MAN’S NATION † human kind …1390
– YEADIE’S-RACE the human race …1793 Sc.
– YEADIE’S-SONS the human race …1793 Sc.
human – person (includes HUMAN BEING)
– ADAMITE a descendant or child of Adam; a human being
– DEADLY † a mortal; usually as plural: mortals, human beings …c1450
– RATIONALS † human beings, men …1626 obs. or rare
 
HUMANE – adjectives
– CLEMENTIOUS † mild and humane in the exercise of power or authority; merciful, lenient, kindly towards those in one’s power …1632
– MANLY † humane, charitable; generous …1377
 
HUMANELY – adverbs
– MANLY † like a human being; humanely, courteously; generously …1377
 
HUMANENESS – nouns
– MANHEAD † humanity, humaneness, kindness …1382
– MANHOOD † humanity, humaneness …1432-50
 
HUMANITY – nouns
– ADAMHOOD manhood, humanity …1857 poetic
– MANHEAD † humanity, humaneness, kindness …1382
– MANHOOD † humanity, humaneness …1432-50
– MANKIND †* human feeling, humanity …1603
– MANLINESS † humanity; human kindness …1382
– MANSHIP † humanity, kindness; courtesy, civility …a1000
 
HUMBLE – adjectives
– BENIGN † gentle, meek, humble …1377
– BUXOM † submissive, humble, meek …a1300
– DAFT † mild, gentle, meek, humble …c1000
– DEMISSIVE † downcast, humble, submissive …1630
– EDMEDE † humble …c1000
– EDMOD † gentle, humble, meek …c1000
– EDMODED † meek, humble …a1175
– EDMODI † gentle, humble, meek …a1225
– HEAN † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial …c825
– HENE † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial …c825
– HUMILE † humble, lowly …c1470 chiefly Sc.
– SILLY † of humble rank or state; lowly …a1568
– UNBAULD † humble, self-abased …Bk1905 Sc.
– UNBUMPTIOUS modest, humble …1865
humble – adverbs
– BASELY † in humble rank of life; illegitimately …1583
humble – person 
– BACK-SEAT PERSON a humble, unobtrusive person; a follower, not a leader …Bk1992 Amer. South
– BASE-BORN one of humble or illegitimate birth …1569
– HEANLING † a base, abject, or humble person …a1225
– POOR SNAKE a poor, needy, or humble person; a drudge …1590
– SIMPLE a person in a humble or ordinary condition of life …a1400
– VAILER †* one who abases or brings down; a humbler …1600
humble – verbs 
– BASE † to lower in rank, condition, or character; to debase, to humble, to depose, to degrade …1538
– BATE to lower, to let down; to cast down, to humble, to depress, to deject …c1380
– BELOW †* to make low or lowly; to humble; to demean …1377 obs. rare exc. Sc.
– CALL DOWN to reprimand; to rebuke; to scold severely; to humble one …1896 Amer. dial.
– EAT CRAP to suffer and accept humiliation; to humble oneself, usually in order to attain a desired goal …1930s sl., orig. US
– EAT SHIT to humble oneself, usually to attain a desired goal …1930s sl.
– EDMODIEN † to humble …a1225
– FACE to humble, to embarrass, to humiliate …1950s Amer. sl.
– GROVEL IN THE DIRT to humble oneself; to perform an act of humiliation …1867
– GROVEL IN THE DUST to humble oneself; to perform an act of humiliation …1865
– HUMILE † to humble, to humiliate, to abase …1491
– LAY † to cast down, to abase, to humble …a1300
– LESS † to lower in position or station; to humble, to degrade …c1375
– LESSEN † to lower the dignity, position, or character of; to humble; to degrade, to demean …a1654
– LET DOWN to abase, to humble, to humiliate …1747
– PULL DOWN to humble, to humiliate
– PUT DOWN to snub, humiliate or belittle …1960s sl.
– SIMPLE †* to render one simple; to humble in respect of knowledge …c1425
– SING SMALL to restrain or humble oneself …1845 Amer. dial.
– TAKE A FALL OUT OF to humble by defeating …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– TAKE DOWN A BUTTONHOLE OR TWO to lower a person in status or esteem; to humble or humiliate a person, esp. one regarded as having an inflated opinion of himself or herself …1592 colloq.
– TAKE DOWN A HACK to humble, to humiliate …1910 Sc.
– TAKE LOW to humble oneself, or accept a lower position …1942 Amer. dial.
– TAKE LOW BRIDGE to humble oneself, or accept a lower position …1940 Amer. dial.
​- VAIL † to abase, to humble, or lower one’s courage, the heart, etc. …1582
 
HUMBLED – adjectives
– ABESSED † humbled, abased, cast down, debased, dejected …1707 
– PLUME-PLUCKED stripped of plumes or honours; humbled, brought down; reduced in rank …1593
 
HUMBLING – nouns
– FACE an instance of successfully humbling or embarrassing someone …1979 Amer. students’ sl.
– SHIT SANDWICH a humbling experience …1960s sl.
 
HUMBLY – adverbs
– BENIGNLY † meekly, gently, humbly …c1386
– BUXOMLY † obediently, humbly, meekly; courteously, willingly …a1240
– CAP IN  HAND in a humble or servile manner …Bk1999 
– EDMODLICHE † humbly, meekly …a1175
 
HUMBUG, HUMBUGGING – nouns
– ACKAMARACKA insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; pretentious nonsense, bluff  …1933 sl., orig. US
– ACKAMARACKUS insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; a fraudulent tale; a tall story; something regarded as pretentious nonsense …1933 sl., orig. US
– APPLESAUCE insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery, suave talk …1919 US sl.
– BALONUS pretentious nonsense; humbug; foolishness …1929 Amer. sl.
– BAMBOSH deceptive humbug; a hoax, hoaxing; deception …1865 sl.
– BARNEY humbug, cheating …1865 sl.
– BLA insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1918 US sl.
– BLAGUE pretentious falsehood; blustering humbug; mendacious boasting …1837
– BLAH pretentious talk or writing; insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1918 US sl.
– BLAH-BLAH pretentious talk or writing; insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1918 US sl.
– BLARNEY insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1796
– BOOSHWA insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1906 Amer. sl.
– BOOSHWAH insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1906 Amer. sl.
– BORAC, BORACK, BORAK, BORAX insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1845 Aust. & NZ sl.
– B.S. insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1900 sl., chiefly Amer.
– BULL insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1902 sl., orig. US
– BULLSHIT insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense, lies, deception …1914 sl., orig. US
– BULL’S WOOL insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1933 Aust. & NZ sl.
– BUNK humbug, nonsense …1918
– BUSHWA insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1906 Amer. sl.
– BUSHWAH insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1906 Amer. sl.
– BUSHWHA insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1906 Amer. sl.
– CALLIFUDGE nonsense, humbug …1870 Eng. dial.
– CALLIFUGLE nonsense, humbug …1870 Eng. dial.
– CHAFF nonsense, humbug, foolishness, ridicule; small, unimportant things or acts …1859 Amer. dial.
– CROCK OF SHIT insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense  …1945 US sl.
– DRIP insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1919 sl. orig. US
– EFFUTIATION twaddle, balderdash, nonsense, humbug …1823
– FALLAL nonsense, frivolous talk or behaviour; conceit, humbug …1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– FLAM nonsense; humbug; flattery; a lie …1598 sl.
– FLANNEL insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; indirect or evasive talk; deceiving flattery, humbug, rubbish, nonsense…1927 Brit. sl.
– GAFF † humbug; stuff and nonsense …1877
– GALBANUM empty protestations or representations; bosh, humbug …1764
– GAMMON insincere or exaggerated talk, ridiculous nonsense suited to deceive simple persons; humbug or flattery, rubbish, lies …1781 UK sl.
– GAMMON AND JALAP nonsense, rubbish, humbug …E19 sl.
– GAMMON AND PICKLES nonsense, rubbish, humbug …E19 sl.
– GAMMON AND SPINACH nonsense, rubbish, humbug …E19 sl.
– GAS empty or boastful talk; showy pretense, bombast; humbug, nonsense …1847 sl.
– GREASE insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1877 sl.
– GUM nonsense; humbug …old Amer. dial.
– GYVO humbug; flattery; insincerity, pretense; deceptive talk or behaviour …c1935 Aust. sl.
– HANKY-PANKYING humbugging, cheating, tricking …1868 Eng. dial.
– JAZZ insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1917 sl., orig. US
– JIGGERY-POKERY humbug; nonsense …Bk1896 tailors’ sl.
– JIVE insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1928 sl., orig. US
– KIDSTAKES insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1912 Aust. & NZ sl.
– KIDSTEAKS insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1912 Aust. & NZ sl.
– MADAM insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1927 sl.
– MALAKY insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1929 sl., orig. US
– MALARKEY, MALARKY, MULLARKEY insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1929 sl., orig. US
– MIFF-MAFF nonsense, foolishness, humbug …1858 Eng. dial.
– MOGE; MOGUE a joke, a humbug, a trick …1888 Eng. dial.
– MOODY insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1917 sl.
– MORG a joke, a humbug, a trick …1888 Eng. dial.
​- NANCY STORY humbug, nonsense …L19 sl.
– NANCY TALE humbug, nonsense …L19 sl.
– OIL insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1917 sl.
– OLD ACKAMARACKUS, THE insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1933 sl., orig. US
– SAWDER insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1854
– SCHMEER, SCHMERE, SHMEER insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1961 US sl.
– SNOW JOB insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1943 sl., orig. US
– SNUFFLE pious cant, humbug …1900s NZ sl.
– SOAP insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1854 sl.
– SOFT SAWDER insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1836 sl.
– SOFT SOAP flattering, persuasive, or cajoling talk; insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1830 colloq., orig. US
– SPINACH insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1929 US sl.
– SWEET TALK insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1945 sl., orig. US
– TAFFY insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1878 Amer. sl.
humbug, humbugging – verbs
– ANKY-PRANKY to humbug, to cheat, to trick; to be up to tricks …B1900 Eng. dial.
– BAFFLE † to hoodwink, to gull, to cheat; to humbug; to make a fool of …c1590
– BAMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to confuse …1842 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– BEFLUM to deceive by cajoling language, to flatter, to humbug …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BLAGUE to tell lies in jest; to hoax, to humbug …1883
– BOSH to make of no effect; to spoil; to humbug …1870 sl.
– BUMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex …1880 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– COME THE PADDY OVER to get the upper hand of by a trick, to bamboozle, to humbug …1821 Sc. sl. 
– FLUMMER † to deceive by flattery, to humbug …1764
– GAMMON to stuff with ridiculous nonsense; to flatter, to humbug, to deceive, to hoax …1812 colloq.
– GUM to cheat, to delude, to humbug …1840 US sl.
– HANKY-PANKY to humbug, to cheat, to trick; to be up to tricks …B1900 Eng. dial.
– HENKY-PENKY to humbug, to cheat, to trick; to be up to tricks …B1900 Eng. dial.
– KIDDY to hoax, to humbug, to subject to confidence trickery …M19 sl.
– MOGE; MOGUE to deceive, to fool, to trick, to cheat, to humbug; to play a joke on, to make fun of …1854 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
– MORG to deceive, to fool, to trick, to cheat, to humbug; to play a joke on, to make fun of …1854 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
​- REEL to quiz, to humbug …Bk1904 N. Ireland
– VERNEUK to cheat, to humbug, to swindle …1871 S. Afr. sl.
humbug, humbugging – interjections
– WALKER! an all-purpose teasing, dismissive exclamation; nonsense! humbug! rubbish! …1811
 
HUMID – adjectives
– DANKISH † wet; humid …1545
– GIFFY of weather: humid, muggy, damp; hence, moist, pliable …1829 Amer. dial.
– GIVEY of weather: humid, muggy, damp; hence, moist, pliable …1829 Amer. dial.
– GIVY of weather: humid, muggy, damp; hence, moist, pliable …1829 Amer. dial.
– MOISTY damp; humid …1966 Amer. dial.
– MUCKY muggy, humid …1804 Amer. dial.
– MURKY muggy, humid …1965 Amer. dial.
– SMOTHERSOME oppressively hot or humid …1864 Amer. dial.
– STICKY hot and humid, muggy …1855 orig. US
 
HUMIDITY – nouns
– DANK † wetness, humidity, damp …? a1400
– SIZZARD heat with high humidity 
– WACKNESS † moisture, humidity …c1520 Sc.
– WAK † moisture, humidity …1456 Sc.
– WAKNESS † moisture, humidity …c1520 Sc.
 
HUMILIATE – person
– SQUABASHER someone who delivers a crushing blow to another’s morale; one who humiliates …1827 Sc.
humiliate – verbs
– ASS-ASS to humiliate yourself …1999 US sl.
– BEND ONE OVER to position someone for pederasty; to dominate or humiliate someone; usually said of a male …E20 US criminals’ sl.
– BORE to ridicule, to humiliate, to embarrass …1800 Amer. dial.
– BREAK A PERSON’S ASS to assault a person severely; in a weakened sense, to defeat or humiliate a person …1941
– BRING DOWN TO ONE’S MARROWBONES to humiliate …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
– BURN DOWN SOMEONE to humiliate someone …Bk1990 sl.
– BURN SOMEONE DOWN to humiliate someone …Bk1990 sl.
– BUST A PERSON’S ASS to assault a person severely; in a weakened sense, to defeat or humiliate a person …2005
– CHUMP DOWN to humiliate …1970s US Black sl.
– CHUMP OUT to humiliate …1970s US Black sl.
– COME DOWN ON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– COME DOWN UPON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– CRIMP to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– CUT THE COMB OF to lower the pride of; to take down a peg; to abash, to humiliate …1814
– DIMINUTE * to lessen; to belittle, to disparage, to put down, to degrade, to humiliate …1575 
​- DO A PERSON IN THE EYE * to defraud, to injure, to humiliate a person …1891
– DRAW A PERSON’S EYETEETH * to take the strength, pride, or self-confidence out of someone; to humiliate; to dupe or cheat …1789
– FACE to outperform, to show up, to humiliate, to insult …1950s US campus sl.
– FAKE ON SOMEONE to humiliate; to deceive …1970s US Black sl.
– FAKE OUT to humiliate; to deceive …1990s US Black sl.
– GIVE A TAKING-DOWN to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GRAVEL to annoy, to disturb, to distress, to embarrass, to humiliate …1871 Amer. dial.
– HEAN † to insult, to humiliate, to debase, to lower …c950
– HENE † to insult, to humiliate, to debase, to lower …c950
– HUMILE † to humble, to humiliate, to abase …1491
– JEFF to behave obsequiously, esp. towards Whites; to humiliate oneself …1960s US Black sl.
– JUMP ON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– JUMP UPON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– KICK A PERSON’S ARSE, KICK A PERSON’S ASS to defeat or humiliate; to exhaust or tire out …1855 colloq.
– KNOCK ONE OFF HIS PERCH to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– KNOCK THE BOTTOM OUT OF ONE to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– KNOCK THE WIND OUT OF ONE’S SAILS to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LET DOWN to abase, to humble, to humiliate …1747
– LET DOWN A FEW PEGS to humiliate … Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LET DOWN A PEG to humiliate … Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LET DOWN A PEG OR TWO to humiliate … Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LET SOMEONE DOWN A BUTTONHOLE to humiliate someone; to deflate someone …L16 sl.
– LET THE AIR OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LET THE GAS OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MAKE A CHUMP OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MAKE A SAP OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OFF to humiliate …1970s sl.
– PISS ALL OVER to show great contempt or scorn towards; to humiliate …1986 sl.
– PISS ON to show great contempt or scorn towards; to humiliate …1951 sl.
– PISS ON FROM A GREAT HEIGHT to humiliate; to show great scorn towards …1987 sl.
– PISS UPON to show great contempt or scorn towards; to humiliate …a1625 sl.
– PULL DOWN to humble, to humiliate
– PULL ONE OFF HIS HIGH HORSE to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUNCTURE ONE’S BALLOON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT A TUCK IN ONE’S TAIL to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT DOWN to snub, humiliate or belittle …1960s sl.
– PUT ONE DOWN to humiliate someone …1958 sl., orig. US
– PUT ONE IN HIS PLACE to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT ONE WHERE HE BELONGS to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT ONE’S NOSE OUT OF JOINT to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT ONE’S PIPE OUT to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT THE CRIMP ON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT THE ROLLERS UNDER to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT THE SKID UNDER to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT THE SQUASHER ON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT THE SQUASH ON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT THE SQUELCHER ON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUT THE SQUELCH ON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– QUEER to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– RAKE ON to humiliate; to criticize …1980s US college sl.
– SACK to humiliate someone …1980s US college sl.
– SCHTUP to destroy; to humiliate; to defeat …1930s sl,. orig. US
– SEND AWAY WITH A FLEA IN ONE’S EAR to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SET ONE IN HIS PLACE to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SETTLE to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SETTLE ONE’S HASH to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SHTUP to destroy; to humiliate; to defeat …1930s sl,. orig. US
– SIT ON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SIT UPON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SQUASH to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SQUAT ON to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SQUELCH to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– STAND A PERSON DOWN to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– STUPP to destroy; to humiliate; to defeat …1930s sl,. orig. US
– TAKE A FALL OUT OF to humiliate …1889 Amer. sl.
– TAKE A TUCK IN to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE A TUMBLE OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE AWAY ONE’S SHINE to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE DOWN to humiliate, to defeat …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– TAKE DOWN A BUTTONHOLE OR TWO to lower a person in status or esteem; to humble or humiliate a person, esp. one regarded as having an inflated opinion of himself or herself …1592 colloq.
– TAKE DOWN A FEW PEGS to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE DOWN A HACK to humble, to humiliate …1910 Sc.
– TAKE DOWN A NOTCH to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE DOWN A PEG to reduce a person’s self-esteem; to humiliate someone; to force a brash or bumptious person to conform …E20 sl.
– TAKE DOWN A PEG OR TWO to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE IT OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
– TAKE ONE A BUTTON-HOLE LOWER to humiliate or take the conceit out of him …1588 colloq.
– TAKE ONE DOWN A BUTTON-HOLE to humiliate or take the conceit out of him …1593 colloq.
– TAKE SOMEONE A BUTTONHOLE LOWER to humiliate someone; to deflate someone …L16 sl.
– TAKE SOMEONE DOWN to humiliate someone; to deflate someone …L16 sl.
– TAKE THE AIR OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE THE FRILLS OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE THE GAS OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE THE RISE OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE THE SHINE OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE THE STARCH OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE THE TUCK OUT OF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE THE WIND OUT OF ONE’S SAILS to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TELL WHERE TO GET OFF to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TELL WHERE TO HEAD IN to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TREAT LIKE SHIT to treat in a disdainful or humiliating manner …1999 UK sl.
– WHIP A PERSON’S ASS to assault a person severely; in a weakened sense, to defeat or humiliate a person …1969
– WIPE ONE’S EYE to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– WIPE THE EYE OF ONE to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
HUMILIATED – adjectives
– BURNED disappointed; humiliated; put down …Bk1990 sl.
– DUSTED shamed, humiliated …1980s sl.
– FACED humiliated, embarrassed …1980s US campus sl.
– GROVELLED humiliated, debased …a1845
– HEAN † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial …c825
– HENE † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial …c825
– OUTDONE put out, perplexed, exasperated, displeased; disappointed, overcome, beaten, humiliated, embarrassed …1816 Amer. dial.
– RAKED humiliated …1980s US college sl.
humiliated – verbs
– EAT DRAG DUST to be humiliated …1944 Amer. dial.
– HAVE ONE’S MEAT DO ONE NO GOOD to be discontented or churlish; to be vexed, disappointed, to humiliated …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
HUMILIATING – verbs
– EAT BOILED CROW to be forced to do something extremely disagreeable and humiliating …1877 US colloq.
– EAT DIRT to act in a demeaning, humiliating manner …M19 sl.
– EAT THE LEEK to accept humiliation submissively; to submit to what is humiliating …1599
 
HUMILIATION – nouns
– ABASURE † the quality of being abased; humiliation …1653
– ABJECTION † the act of casting down; abasement, humiliation, degradation …c1525
– ASS-KICKING a physical bearing or assault; a severe defeat, reprimand, or humiliation …1943 US sl.
– FACIAL an instance of humiliation; an insult; a rebuff …1978 Amer. sl.
– PUTDOWN a snub or humiliation …sl.
humiliation – verbs 
– EAT ACORNS to suffer humiliation; to accept defeat …1930s US Black sl.
– EAT A SHIT SANDWICH to accept humiliation as punishment …1997 UK sl.
– EAT BOILED CROW to suffer humiliations and insults without responding in kind …1877 sl.
– EAT CRAP to suffer and accept humiliation; to humble oneself, usually in order to attain a desired goal …1930s sl., orig. US
– EAT CROW to suffer humiliations and insults without responding in kind …1877 sl.
– EAT DIRT to retract a previous statement, usually incurring humiliation and embarrassment by so doing …M19 sl.
– EAT DIRT PIE to retract a previous statement, usually incurring humiliation and embarrassment by so doing …M19 sl.
– EAT DOG to ‘eat one’s words’; to back down from an untenable position; to assume the responsibility for what one has said or done; to suffer humiliation and insult without reciprocating …19C sl.
– EAT DONG to suffer humiliation …1970s US sl.
– EAT DUST to retract a previous statement, usually incurring humiliation and embarrassment by so doing …M19 sl.
– EAT IT to suffer humiliation, esp. in attaining a desired goal …1930s sl.
– EAT ONE’S LEEK to submit to humiliation under compulsion …1599
– EAT SHIT to suffer and accept humiliation …1930s sl.
– EAT SHIT AND DIE to suffer and accept humiliation …1930s sl.
– EAT TURKEY to suffer humiliation and insult without reciprocating …1965 US sl.
– GET EGG ON ONE’S FACE to come out of an affair, esp. political or commercial, badly, and hence, to suffer loss, humiliation and embarrassment; to make a fool of oneself through presumption or lack of judgement …c1974
– TAKE SHIT to suffer (and accept) humiliation, annoyance, or teasing; often in negative …1950s sl., orig. US
humiliation – interjections
– OH THE PAIN, THE SHAME! used as a humorous comment on humiliation …1997 US sl.
 
HUMILITY – nouns
– BUXOMNESS † obedience; submissiveness; lowliness, humility …c1175
– EDMEDE † gentleness, humility …c1000
– EDMODNESS † gentleness, humility, meekness …c888
– UMBLETE † humility …1377
humility – verbs
– EAT CROW to display total humility, esp. when shown to be wrong …Bk2006 US sl.
 
HUMMINGBIRD – nouns
– FLY-BIRD a hummingbird …1782-3