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  • houny
    /háwni/ [from its resemblance to houndfish] n. the red-fin needlefish, Strongylura notata. (Gen.)
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  • hotty patty
    [cf. Haitian pate pâté en croüte; meat pie HCEFD; hotty is clearly from hot heated, piquant, but the second syllable
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  • hot the pain
    [cf. HOT adj. and v] phr. to give an alcoholic drink to a woman in labor in order to hasten
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  • hot boy
    n. 1. [W Car.; cf. OED hot lustful] a hot-blooded young man-about-town, a playboy. (Black) 2. [cf. Brit. slang hot
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  • hot
    v. [Atlantic; OED idem "now colloq. or vulgar"; dial. in Brit. EDD, US ADD] to heat up (food, etc.): 1966
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  • hot
    adj. 1. [OED, severe, intense (of suffering) obs.→ 1722] (of labor contractions) sharp, in-tense: This is for sharpen the pain,
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  • horse-shit
    [from appearance] n. a species of mushroom. (Eleu.)
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  • horse-radish tree
    [OED Moringa pterygosperma1859 →] n. a pod-bearing tree, Moringa sp.: 1835 The pod of the horse-radish tree [Hyperathera moringa] (Journal 9).
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  • horse radish
    [OED different sp.] n. the beet. (White)
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  • horse-nick
    [cf. ARSENICKER ] n. a large, brownish-gray bird with long legs. (Eleu)
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