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hucksheen

hucksheen is the alternative form of huxen.

Meaning of huxen

Noun

huxen (plural huxens)

  1. (West-Country, obsolete) The hough; the back of the hip.
    • Or ſvveet Lady reach to me / The Abdomen of a Bee; / Or commend a Crickets-hip, / Or his Huckson, to my Scrip.1648, Robert Herrick, “The Beggar to Mab, the Fairie Queen”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas]...

Questions about hucksheen

What is hucksheen the alternative form of?
Hucksheen is the alternative form of huxen.

Words near hucksheen in the dictionary

  1. huckles
  2. huckling
  3. Hucknall
  4. hucks
  5. Huckses
  6. hucksheen
  7. huckshin
  8. huckson
  9. Huckstep
  10. Huckstepp
  11. huckster

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