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- hack
- hacker
- hackle up
- had
- haddy, haddie
- haffin' around
- hag, higue, hige, huyg
- hagger
- hail
- Hairstyles
- hairy
- Haitian
- halawis, halavis
- half bunch
- half-cut
- half-day
- half-hot
- half-jar
- hall
- ham skin
- Hamian
- hamlet
- hand
- hand go, hand come
- hand-glove
- Handicrafts
- handle it!
- handle yourself
- handless
- handy woman
- hang
- hang up
- hang-gut
- hang-up clothes
- hangy
- hankicher
- hant
- harbour
- Harbour Island cotton
- hard
- hard back
- hard basket
- hard brown
- hard cheese
- hard hair
- hard on
- hard on
- hard road: give somebody hard road
- hard shoes
- hard-(to)-pay
- hard-a-port
- hard-head
- hard-head
- hard-luck lizard
- hard-lucked
- hard-mouth
- hard-of-hearing
- hard-red
- hard-skin cocobey
- hard-to-learn
- hardwood
- harge
- harkler's club
- harraner
- haslet
- Hatchet Bay Fly
- haul
- haul-back
- haul-over
- haul-up
- hauling
- haunt, hant
- have
- hawkfish
- he
- he, 'e
- he-oon
- head
- head
- head
- head (is) hard
- head (is) not good
- head-bone
- head: have a straight head
- head: my head spin
- healing plant
- health: see your health
- hear
- heard-of lie
- hears
- heart
- heart
- heated
- heave up
- heavy (down)
- heavy strings
- hedge mustard
- hedgehog
- heeb up
- heed to
- height
- helmet
- hen seed
- Heneauga, Heneaga, Hinagua
- hep
- her
- herb
- here
- here
- Here I stand in the well
- hersen
- hesef, heself
- het
- hew
- hey, eh
- hice, hist, hyst, h'ist
- hice-up
- high
- high
- high blood
- high bush
- high coppet, high carpet
- high yellow
- high-hat
- higue, hige
- hike (a lift)
- hill beat
- him
- hinches
- hip
- his
- his-uns
- hisse'f
- history
- hit luck
- hit on
- hit the Dixie
- hitch
- hitch-up
- Hitian
- Hitian dressing
- Hitian mango, Haiti Mango
- Hitian roach
- hoe-cake
- hog
- hog banana
- hog bush
- hog cabbage
- hog grass
- hog lice
- hog nest
- hog palmetto
- hog pepper
- hog plum
- hog potato
- hog up
- Hog-catcher
- hog-sty, hog-style
- hoggish
- hoist
- hold (1)
- hold (2)
- holding: I holding
- hole
- hole-in-the-wall
- hollow
- holt
- home-boy
- hominy
- honey
- honeycomb
- honeycomb cowfish
- hongry
- hook (1)
- hook (2)
- hook up
- hook-off-the-nail
- hooker
- hoop
- hopper
- Hopping John
- horm
- hormer
- horn
- horn-tribe
- hornet
- horny horse
- horse ass
- horse bush
- horse conch
- horse grass
- horse hole
- horse radish
- horse-back
- horse-eye jack
- horse-flesh (mahogany)
- horse-kind
- horse-nick
- horse-radish tree
- horse-shit
- hot
- hot
- hot boy
- hot the pain
- hotty patty
- houny
- house lizard
- house spider
- house-girl
- house-top
- Household Articles
- how
- how be?
- How is it?
- how much?
- How you do?
- how?
- howdy
- howl
- hub drum
- hucks
- hug somebody up
- hulk corn
- hully-gully
- human society
- humbug
- hummer
- hunger
- hungry
- hunterman, huntin' man
- hurrah nest
- hurricane bird
- hurricane grass
- hurricane ham
- hurricane hole
- hurricane room
- hurry
- hurt your head
- hush
- hush your mouth!
- huss
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hip
[cf. West African English use of hips in reference to the buttocks (Hancock 1981:7); a euphemism favored by women for mixed company] n. buttocks: 1918 They stinging me on my hip (Parsons 5). She fall on her hip [of one who had fallen on her buttocks].I could sit down on my hip and chop grass (Acklins). Kiss my hip! (a defiant refusal) (Nassau). cf. GIVE SOMEBODY YOUR HIP (Gen.)
—quasi refl. pron. [cf. ASS idem] : 1974 Let her carry her hip and go drink cheap rum with her no-good friends! (King 8). Get you hip out of here! (Nassau). Watch your hip! [i.e. be careful of your manners] (Bleu.). My hip got stuck with it [i.e. 1 got stuck with it myself—the others were able to get out of doing it] (Nassau).
Tags: anatomy, body part, euphemism, noun, reflexive pronoun
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Last update: 2010-10-17 21:21
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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