1552. Huloet, Abcedarium, s.v. Darlynge, a wanton terme used in veneriall speach, as be these: honycombe, pyggisnye, swetehert, true love.
Honey-fogle (or fugle), verb.
(American).—To cheat; to
swindle; to humbug. For synonyms,
see Gammon.
1888. Missouri Republican, 20 Jan. Noonan's companion objected to this honey-fugling by knocking the demonstrative stranger down.
Honey-pot, subs. (old).—The
female pudendum. For synonyms,
see Monosyllable.
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., iii., 342. For when you have possession got, Of Venus' Mark, or hony-pot.
Honour Bright! intj. (common).—Upon
my honour.
1819. Moore, Tom Crib, p. 36. At morning meet, and,—honour bright,—Agree to share the blunt and tatters!
1843. Selby, Antony and Cleopatra Married. Cle. Will you love me as dearly as ever? Ant. Dearer, dear Chloe, dearer! Cle. Honour? Ant. Bright and shining.
1869. F. Hall, Marginal reading to Lyndsay's Satire of Three Estates [E.E. Text Soc.], p. 382. She is more than a match for twenty-four a night, HONOUR BRIGHT.
1878. Hatton, Cruel London, bk. VIII, ch. ii. Honour bright, no kid, as we say in London.
1881. W. Black, Beautiful Wretch, ch. xix. 'I do not mean to marry Mr. Jacomb, if that is what you mean.' 'No? Honour bright?' 'I shall not marry Mr. Jacomb.'
1892. Cassell's Sat. Jour., 28 Sep., p. 29., c. 3. 'Come, come, Mr. Smith, you're drawing the long bow!' 'Honour bright, I'm not.'
1892. N. Gould, Double Event, p. 158. 'She did, honour bright,' said Smirk.
Hood. Two faces under one
HOOD (or Hat), phr. (old).—Double-dealing.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hood.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v. Hood. May the man be dd and never grow fat, Who carries two faces under one HAT.
To PUT A BONE IN ONE'S hood, verb. phr. (obsolete).—To cuckold.
1560. Nice Wanton (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, ii., 169). I could tell you who putteth a bone in your hood. Ibid. (p. 170), Then by the rood, A bone in your hood, I shall put you ere long.
Hoodlum, subs. (American).—A
boy rough. Also, a rough of
either sex. Also (political), a
low-class voter. Originally
Californian. Cf., Arab.
1872. Sacramento Weekly Union, 24 Feb., p. 2. All the boys to be trained as scriveners, tape-measurers, counter-hoppers, clerks, pettifoggers, polite loafers, street-hounds, hoodlums, and bummers.
1877. Los Angeles Express, 25 Aug. A gang of boys . . . associated for the purpose of stealing. . . . Their words of warning were 'Huddle 'em, Huddle 'em.' . . . soon contracted into hoodlum.
1877. Boston Journal, Aug. You at the East have but little idea of the hoodlums of this city. They compose a class of criminals of both sexes, far more dangerous than are to be found in the Eastern cities. They travel in gangs, and are ready at any moment for the perpetration of any crime.
1877. Congregationalist, 26 Sep. A newspaper man attempting to coin a word to designate a gang of young street Arabs under the beck of one named 'Muldoon,' hit upon noodlums, simply reversing the leader's name. . . . The compositor, taking the n for an h, printed it hoodlum.
1877. Morning Call, 27 Oct. The rowdy element in the city . . . who were soon after designated as hoodlums.
1885. G. A. Sala, in Daily Telegraph, 12 Aug., p. 5, c. 5. In order to guard against the contingency of the white hoodlums, or roughs, coming down in force from the American quarter of the city [San Francisco], and 'going for' the Celestials.
