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huxon

huxon 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 huxon

What is huxon the alternative form of?
Huxon is the alternative form of huxen.

Words near huxon in the dictionary

  1. Huxit
  2. Huxleian
  3. Huxley
  4. Huxleyan
  5. Huxleys
  6. huxon
  7. Huxtable
  8. Huxtables
  9. huxter
  10. huxtered
  11. huxtering

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