Word.ws English Dictionary

huxen

/ˈhʌksən/

huxen noun: the hough; the back of the hip.

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]...
    • Thy hozen muxy up zo vurs thy gammerels to tha very huckſheens o' tha, thy gore coat oll a girred, thy head clathing oll a fouſt[…]1746 July, “An Exmoor Scolding”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume XVI, number 9, page 354, column 1

Forms of huxen

pluralhuxens
alternative formhuckson
alternative formhuxon
alternative formhuckshin
alternative formhucksheen

Origin of huxen

Inherited from Middle English *hoxene, *huxene (only attested as hokschyne, with alteration after schyne), from Old English hōhsinu, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hasinu, from Proto-Germanic *hanhasinwō, from *hanhaz (“heel”) + *senawō (“sinew”). Compare hough, hox, and sinew.

Questions about huxen

What does huxen mean?
Huxen means the hough; the back of the hip.
What part of speech is huxen?
Huxen is a noun.
How do you pronounce huxen?
Huxen is pronounced /ˈhʌksən/.
What is the plural of huxen?
The plural of huxen is huxens.

Words near huxen in the dictionary

  1. huweteng
  2. huwoman
  3. huwomen
  4. Huws
  5. Hux
  6. huxen
  7. huxens
  8. Huxes
  9. Huxham
  10. Huxhams
  11. Huxi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: huxen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “huxen.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/huxen. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.