Spanish Synonyms.—Estar pelado or ser un pelado (= skinned); tiñoso (= scabby).
Italian Synonym.—Calcare a ventun 'ora.
2. (common).—Intoxicated. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.
3. (Winchester College).—Out of countenance; exhausted (in swimming).
Hard-upness or Hard-uppishness,
subs. (colloquial).—Poverty;
a condition of impoverishment.
1876. Hindley, Adventures of a Cheap Jack. There were frequent . . . collapses from death or hard-upness.
1883. Illust. London News, 26 May, p. 519, c. 3. These I O U's . . . do not imply, as might be supposed, common hardupness.
1891. N. Gould, Double Event, p. 28. Ike's knowledge of some of the bookmakers he had met in the old land led him to believe that hard-uppishness would scare any knight of the pencil away.
Hardware (or Hard), subs.
(American).—Counterfeit coin.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Hardware-bloke, subs. (thieves').—A
native of Birmingham; a
Brum (q.v.).
Hardy-annual, subs. (Parliamentary).—A
bill that is brought in
every year, but never passed into
law. Hence (journalistic), any
stock subject.
1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 16 Aug., p. 4, c. 2. Signs of the so called 'silly season' which has been somewhat delayed this year owing to the political crisis, are now beginning to appear. The readers of the Daily Telegraph are once more filling the columns of that journal with 'Is Marriage a Failure?' The hardy annual is called 'English Wives' this time
Hare, verb. (old).—To dodge; to
double; to bewilder.
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., i., 92. Running, haring, gaping, staring.
1672. Marvell, Rehearsal, Tr. (Grosart), iii, 372. They amaze, shatter and hare their people.
To hare it, verb. phr. (American thieves').—To retrace one's steps; to double back. [From the way of a hare with the hounds.]
To make a hare of, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To make ridiculous; to expose the ignorance of any person.
1830-32. Carleton, Traits and Stories, 'The Hedge-School.' What a hare that made of him . . . and did not leave him a leg to stand on!
1844. Lever, Tom Burke of Ours, ii., 393. It was Mister Curran made a hare of your Honor that day.
To swallow a hare, verb. phr. (old).—To get very drunk. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v
1725. New Cant. Dict. Hare, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. He has swallowed a hare, he is drunk, more probably a hair which requires washing down.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
To hold with the hare and hunt with the hounds, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To play a double game; to keep on good terms with two conflicting parties.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
To kiss the hare's foot. verb. phr. (colloquial).—To be late; to be a day after the fair; to kiss the post.
