A man met his tailor in the street and stopped him.
"I quite forgot to pay for the suit which I have on now," he said. "Why didn"t you remind me?"
"I never ask a gentleman for money," the tailor replied.
"Then what do you do if he doesn"t pay?"
"Well, after some time I no longer think he is a gentleman and then I ask him."
- come with a crash. [from *hurt in the obsolete sense ‘strike hard’]
HUSSAR
n. Soldier of a light cavalry regiment. [magyar huszár]
HUSTLE
—v. (-ling) 1 jostle, bustle.
- (foll. By into, out of, etc.) Force, coerce, or hurry (hustled them out of the room; was hustled into agreeing).
- slang a solicit business. B engage in prostitution.
- slang obtain by energetic activity. —n. Act or instance of hustling. hustler n. [dutch]
HYAENA
var. Of *hyena.
HYBRID
—n. - offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties.
- thing composed of diverse elements, e.g. A word with parts taken from different languages. —adj. - bred as a hybrid.
- heterogeneous. hybridism n. [latin]
HYMNAL
n. Book of hymns. [medieval latin: related to *hymn]
HYPHEN
—n. Sign (-) used to join words semantically or syntactically (e.g. Fruit-tree, pick-me-up, rock-forming), to indicate the division of a word at the end of a line, or to indicate a missing or implied element (as in man- and womankind). —v. = *hyphenate. [greek huphen together]
HYSSOP
n. - small bushy aromatic herb, formerly used medicinally.
- bibl. Plant whose twigs were used for sprinkling in jewish rites. [ultimately from greek hyssopos, of semitic origin]
HABITAT
n. Natural home of an animal or plant. [latin, = it dwells]
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