huxen

plural huxens · alternative huckson · alternative huxon · alternative huckshin · alternative hucksheen

1. West CountryobsoleteThe 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] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 262

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   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 29, “An Exmoor Scolding”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume XVI, number 9, page 354, column 1

   "Ers stratted‡ ter th' huxens§! Eh! come an' lack vor yersel," she screamed in a voice made inarticulate by her shrill and immodest laughter, as the unfortunate man waded at last out of the black water, and stood gazing dolefully at his dirty stockings and shoes.

   1876, Oliver Madox-Brown, “The Dwale Bluth”, in William Rosetti, F. Hueffer, editors, The Dwale Bluth, Hebditch's Legacy, and Other Literary Remains, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 68