Home-rule, subs. (common).—Irish whiskey. For synonyms, see Drinks and Old Man's Milk.
Home-sweet-home, subs. (venery).—The
female pudendum.
For synonyms, see Monosyllable.
Homo, subs. (old).—A man: generally
omee (q.v.). [From the
Latin.] For synonyms, see Cove.
Homoney, subs. (old).—A woman.
For synonyms, see Petticoat.
Also, a wife. For synonyms, see
Dutch and Cf. Homo.
1754. Discoveries of John Poulter, p. 43. My homoney is in quod, my wife is in gaol.
Homo-opathise, verb. (American).—To
get bills (i.e., petitions)
through Legislature, Congress,
or City Council, by means of
bills (i.e., bank-bills).
Hone, subs. (venery).—The female
pudendum. For synomyms, see
Monosyllable.
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., i., 204. So I may no more pogue the hone of a Woman.
Honest, adj. (old).—1. Chaste.
1596. Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, ii., 1. Why't cannot be, where there is such resort, O wanton gallants, and young revellers, That any woman should be honest long.
1599. Henry Porter, Two Angry Women of Abingdon (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, vii., 389). Is my fellow Dick in the dark with my mistress? I pray God they be honest, for there may be much knavery in the dark.
1600. Look About You, Sc. 28 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, vii., 476). What, lecher? No, she is an honest woman. Her husband is well known.
1602. Shakspeare, Othello, iii., 3. I do not think but Desdemona's honest.
1614. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, v., 3. De honest woman's life is a dull scurvy life, indeed.
1663. Killigrew, The Parson's Wedding, iii., 2 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 454). There's none but honest women.
1663. Killigrew, The Parson's Wedding, v., 4 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 525). Crooked, dirty-souled vermin, predestined for cuckolds, painted snails with houses on their backs, and horns as big as Dutch cows. . . . Can any woman be honest that lets such hodmandods crawl o'er her virgin breast and belly?
1672. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, ii., 1. A man . . . may bring his bashful wench, and not have her put out of countenance by the impudent honest women of the town.
1686-7. Aubrey, Gentilisme (1881), p. 163. The towne is full of wanton wenches, and . . . (they say) scarce three honest women in the Town.
1693. Congreve, Old Bachelor, iii., 10. Silvia. I'm not such a fool neither, but I can keep myself honest.
1695. Congreve, Love for Love, iii., 14. Mrs. Fore. Do you think any woman honest? Scan. Yes, several very honest; they'll cheat a little at cards sometimes; but that's nothing. Mrs. Fore. Pshaw! but virtuous, I mean.
2. (common).—Not positively illegal: as honest penny or shilling = money earned by means immoral (as by prostitution) but within the law. Also, To turn an honest penny = to make a profitable deal.
1677. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iii., 1. You must call usury and extortion God's blessing, or the honest turning of the penny.
1886. J. S. Winter, Army Society, ch. xxi. There was a chance of turning an honest penny in hiring them out for the donkey-race.
To make an honest woman, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To marry a mistress.
1629. Earle, Microcosmographie (5th ed.). 'A Serving Man.' The best work he does is his marrying, for he makes an honest woman, and if he follows in it his master's direction, it is commonly the best service he does him.
1672. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, v., 6. Dap. Why she was my wench. Gripe. I'll make her honest then.
