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W.R. in sense of twilight; i’ de hømska = i’ de hømin. — The word is a deriv. of O.N. húm, n., gloom; dark air; twilight. See hums², humsk, sb., and cf. besides No. hymskjen, adj., applied to the sky: somewhat overcast (R.).

*humska² [(hu‘mska) ho‘mska] and *hunska [hu‘nska], sb., a kind of black pudding, made of blood (oxblood) and meal. U. (hunska); oxblood poured over cabbage in a pot and boiled together with meal: Fo. (humska). Also with dropped m: huska [huska]: Fo. From Y^h. is reported a form hungska [ho‘ŋska] in the same sense as hunska, reported from U. “hungska” is prob. developed from “humska” by the change ms > ngs in Shetl. Norn. — Prob. the same word as O.Da. humske, hunske, f., (unclean) liquid.

humsker, sb., see hums², humsk, sb.

humsket, [ho‘mskət], adj., dark; murky; hazy; overcast; de sky is h.; Wh. From Nmⁿ. (N.Roe) is reported a parallel form hømsket [hø‘mskət], a h. sky. See humska¹, sb., and cf. No. hymskjen, adj., appl. to the sky: somewhat overcast.

humskin [ho‘mskin], sb., twilight; i’ de h. L. From humsk; see hums², sb. More comm.: hømin.

hun [hūn (hū^en, hô^ən) hun], sb., 1) a wooden handle, esp. a) the handle of the lid of a bucket or chest; b) a door-handle. 2) sea-term, tabu-name in fishermen’s lang. for hoggistaf, huggistaf, a gaff (a stick provided with an iron hook for landing a large fish); in this latter sense only reported from F.I. [hun]. 3) the mast-head with the hole through which the halyard goes for hoisting and lowering the sail; esp. in pl.: de huns o’ de mast.

Fo. [hūn]. 4) the uppermost end of a rafter, esp. in pl., de huns, denoting the joining of the rafters at the top of a roof; de huns o’ de couples. — Beside hun is found a form høn [høn], esp. in the exprs.: “de høns o’ de mast” and “de høns o’ de couples”, reported from S.Sh., Sa., Y. and U. (in Fe., on the other hand: hū^ən, hō^ən, hun). Sa.: høn, hⁱøn. — Icel. húnn, Fær. húni, m., a wooden handle, e.g. the handle of the lid of a chest or bucket; No. hun, m., a plank covered with bark on one side. O.N. húnn, m., a cube-shaped piece of wood, also mast-head (with húnbora = the hole through which the halyard goes); Fær. húnar, pl., mast-head, esp. in poetry.

hund [hond], sb., a dog; pronounced with u [o]-sound, e.g. in Fo. Otherwise often: hond [hȯnd, hȯᶇd], esp. of a large, ugly dog. Metaph., hond is used as a contemptuous term about or to a person; dy hond [di hȯᶇd]! you hound! (U^{n., bu}.). Also hønd [hønd]. A dim. form. hondi [hȯndi] is mostly used as a pet name for a dog. — O.N. hundr, m., a dog, L.Sc. hund, sb. — Now comm.: Eng. dog. In certain phrases, however, hund, hond or hønd are still used, as: a hoken [hɔkən, håkən] h., a greedy dog; see the proverbial phrase given under hoken, adj.

hundski [hu‘nski], disparaging term of address. U^wg. Prop. you currish (fellow)? Prob. from hundskr, Da. hundsk, adj., coarse; currish.

*hunek [hūnək) hô̅nək], sb., a hen; kirr [kərr] de huneks! shoo the hens away! Esh., Nm^w. O.N. hœna, f., a hen. Shetl. hunek by dropped i-mutation. For another Shetl. form of this word with the final s of the stem preserved, see *hjonsa.

hungs [ho‘ŋs] and hunks [ho‘ŋks],