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homunculus - little man
hookup
n.
5HOOK + UP16
1 the arrangement and connection of parts, circuits, etc. in a radio, telephone system, network of radio stations, etc.
2 a connection, as for water or electricity, in a trailer park or campsite
3 [Colloq.] an agreement or alliance between two governments, parties,
hooligan
n.
5< ? Hooligan (or Houlihan), name of an Irish family in Southwark, London6 [Slang] a hoodlum, esp. a young one
hoo4li[gan[ism#
n.
If this is an eponym, too bad some of the details are not preserved.
hoomalimali - Hawaiian for “flattery” particularly by gigolo beach boys Here is link to glossary of common Hawaiian words, with pronunciation:
http://eagleone.chimacum.wednet.edu/comp2/q1_blue/language.html
hopple
n., vt.
3pled, 3pling HOBBLE
hobble
vi.
3bled, 3bling 5ME hobelen (akin to Du hobbelen, Ger dial. hobbeln) < base of hoppen (see HOP1) + freq. suffix6
1 to go unsteadily, haltingly, etc.
2 to walk lamely or awkwardly; limp
vt.
1 to cause to go haltingly or lamely
2 to hamper the movement of (a horse, etc.) by tying two feet together
3 to hamper; hinder
n.
1 an awkward, halting walk; limp
2 a rope, strap, etc. used to hobble a horse; fetter
3 [Rare] an awkward situation; difficulty
hob4bler
n.
hop[scotch 7h9p4sk9)#8
n.
5HOP1 + SCOTCH16 a children‘s game in which a player tosses a small, flat object, as a stone, into one section after another of a figure drawn on the ground, hopping from section to section to pick up the object after each toss (played only by girls)
horn[pipe 7hCrn4pjp#8
n.
5ME6
1 an obsolete wind instrument with a bell and mouthpiece made of horn
2 a lively dance to the music of the hornpipe, formerly popular with sailors
3 music for this
horotely
The theory of horotely, tachytely, and bradytely. This fascinating and brilliant, if ultimately flawed, theory has been widely misunderstood by people who do not grasp Simpson's central strategy of using tempo to infer mode. Many critics have stated that Simpson only invented some arcane, Greek-based jargon to divide the ordinary continuum of evolutionary rates into slow (brady), ordinary (horo), and fast (tachy). Not at all. Simpson was trying to identify separate peaks (modes in the statistical sense) in the distribution of tempos in order to specify distinct modes (in the ordinary sense) of evolution. Thus, horotely is not the central tendency of a single distribution of rates (with tachytely as the right tail, and bradytely as the left tail, as in the
Hortulan plum
(Prunus hortulana)
Grows on road cuts and low woodlands.
Found in extreme SE Iowa.
hostel
n.
5ME < OFr < LL hospitale: see HOSPITAL6 an inn; hostelry; specif., YOUTH HOSTEL
vi.
to stop at hostels when traveling
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.
Sad when girls with spirit have mothers who have none.
huaco sustantivo masculino (Andes) (historia) ancient Peruvian pottery artefact
huarizo - a cross between a llama and an alpaca (Peruvian fleece type)
Bingley
Bingley
The word first appeared in England in the summer of 1898 in newspaper articles about a gang of young street toughs who called themselves "the Hooligans," although apparently none of them was actually named Hooligan. Some authorities at the time maintained that "hooligan" was a mispronunciation of "Hooley's gang," but no one was ever able to trace a specific "Hooley," so that theory remains unverified. Another possible source of the name is a music hall song of the period featuring a rowdy Irish family called the Hooligans.
The following extract from an encyclopedia entry is a splendid example of British understatement: “Hooligan: The term has been widely used since (at least) the 1990s to describe various street gangs of youths behaving indecorously.”
The behaviour now known as 'football hooliganism' originated in England in the early 1960s, and has been linked with the televising of matches (and of pitch-invasions, riots etc.) and with the 'reclaiming' of the game by the working classes. In other European countries, similar patterns of behaviour emerged about 10 years later, in the early 1970s.
The game of football has long been associated with violence since its beginnings in 13th century England. Medieval football matches involved hundreds of players, and were essentially pitched battles between the young men of rival villages. Only two periods in British history have been relatively free of football-related violence: the inter-war years and the decade following the Second World War.
Hooligans have also attached themselves to other sports. In Canada, crowd violence at hockey games is common, even at schoolboy level, though the term "hooligan" is not generally used.
It can be much smaller than that. I've seen drawings of what the ancients thought a sperm looked like (though I don't know quite how many years ago that is). It had a tiny homunculus inside, which is how we pictured the next generation got started before we knew about DNA and such.
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