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huckshin

huckshin 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 huckshin

What is huckshin the alternative form of?
Huckshin is the alternative form of huxen.

Words near huckshin in the dictionary

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

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