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From an essay about the gigolos of Waikiki Beach:
One of these fellows--I always called him the "Hoomalimali (tease them along)
Kid"-


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Variant of "hobble".


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EVOLUTIONARY RATES Bradytely, Horotely, Tachytely

Different Rates of evolutionary change are observed: "Normal"
Rates = Horotely. Fast = Tachytely. Slow = Bradytely


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Hortulan plum
(Prunus hortulana)

Grows on road cuts and low woodlands.
Found in extreme SE Iowa.


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A word we have all heard. Etymolgy I did not know.
hoyden
n.
5Early ModE, a rude fellow < ? Du heiden, akin to OE h+then, HEATHEN6 a bold, boisterous girl; tomboy
adj.
bold and boisterous; tomboyish
hoy4den[ish
adj.



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huaco
(nm) (And Hist) ancient
Peruvian pottery artefact.


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So the heathen is the sheathen or the heathen is the herthen, but a heathen wasn't a he-athen. And the hoyden wasn't a boyden, but a girlden.


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huarache
(nm) (sandalia: Méx) sandal,
light shoe.


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Question: What is the offspring of a
male guanaco and female llama called?
Answer: Llamo-guanaco.

Reference: South American Camelids and Their Crosses, P.
Walter Bravo-DVM, Llamas, V5N8, Nov/Dec 1991, p. 97-100


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From an essay about the gigolos of Waikiki Beach:
One of these fellows--I always called him the "Hoomalimali (tease them along) Kid"-


You mean, as in: "Get a load of the hoomalimali on that guy!"




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Huguenot
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5MFr, orig., supporter of group in Geneva opposing annexation to Savoy: altered (after Hugues BesanIon, leader of the group) < earlier eidgnot < Ger eidgenosse, a confederate, ally: name later applied to Protestants in reference to the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva6 any French Protestant of the 16th or 17th cent.



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huisache
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5AmSp < Nahuatl wita:win < huitztli, a spine + izachi, plentiful6 a spiny plant (Acacia farnesiana) of the mimosa family, native to Texas and Mexico, with fragrant yellow flowers used in perfumery



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Humaniora - the branches of learning regarded as having primarily a cultural character;, and
usually including languages,literature, history, mathematics, and philosophy.


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humifuse


1. spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent.



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