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ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 89 Hnllook (gl. muol'uk), «&. a mull; blunder] mess, &c. It is also Bometimes used for dirt, or rubbish. Hollock, vb. to make a blunder. Hnngo {gl, muong-oa), ab, old cloth, stockings, rags, and other material, chiefly woollen, opened out by a machine (called a garnet, waste-opener, or rag-machine) for the purpose of being manufactured into cloth. The origin of this word is involved in great obscurity, but it has been thus accounted for. When the machine was first introduced something was presented to its maw which it refused to receive, and one of the hanas reported to the master that it would not pass through the machine, on which he exclaimed, * But it mun ^o,' and hence the word. This does not seem a very satisfactory solution of the difficulty, but I give it for what it is worth. [More likely £rom M.E. mungen, mixed; of. mung^com, mixed com.— W. W. S.] Hntty canf (jgl. muoti kaof), ab. a little calf ; also figuratively, a silly fellow. Hnzzle (gL muoz-l), vb, used for mvffle, in regard to the church bells. Hysell, and Hysen, both common for myaeJf, N The letter n at the termination of some few words, or syllables, is turned into m ; thus — eli^en becomes cfo^em, or elmm ; even (not odd), Sm ; even J i. e. evening, e*cm, in the words twelfth em and twentite'em ; oven, o'om ; aev^n, sa^em, or &aim : Bteven^ Bta'em, or staim ; Stephen, Stf^em ; gizzen^ gizzem. Also flaunpot is flaumpot ; and grandfather and grandmother are sometimes called grom/ather and groinmother, Kaa, the pronunciation of now. Though the inhabitants of this neighbourhood are generally well disposed, they are not exactly what would be termed a polite people ; still this word is sometimes used, as a pleasant form of address, when one meets a passing acquaintance. Nab, ab, a projecting hill : very common here in local names. Thus, Nah hill at Dalton Bank end. West- waft near Meltham, Hunters Nab between Almondbury and Famley, Butter-«a6 at Lopton, [A varia- tion of knap, or knop, A S. cnap, a rounded hilL — W. W. S.J Kabreed, or Kaybreed. I have only heard this word in expressions like the following : * Watch t' nahreed, it comes round once in seven years, and gives somebody a hipe* A similar sentence might be used by a person injured, who thinks the wrong will be returned on the wrong-doer. It seems, therefore, a kind of Nemesis, but no doubt there is some tradition connected with this expression other than what is intimated above. Nacks, ab, used in the following way. * Yaa art ta, ladT ' Au'm