- skip - Brewer’s

Hawkubites (3 syl.)

.

Street bullies in the reign of Queen Anne. It was their delight to molest and ill-treat the old watchmen, women, children, and feeble old men who chanced to be in the streets after sunset. The succession of these London pests after the Restoration was in the following order: The Muns, the Tityré Tūs, the Hectors, the Scourers, the Nickers, then the Hawkubites (1711–1714), and then the Mohocks—most dreaded of all. (Hawkubite is the name of an Indian tribe of savages.)

“From Mohock and from Hawkubite,

Good Lord deliver me,

Who wander through the streets at nigh

Committing cruelty.

They slash our sons with bloody-knives,

And on our daughters fall;

And, if they murder not our wives,

We have good luck withal.”

 

previous entry · index · next entry

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

previous entry · index · next entry

Haver-Cakes
Haveril
Havering (Essex)
Haversack
Havock
Havre (France)
Hawk
Hawk and Handsaw
Hawk nor Buzzard (Neither)
Hawker’s News
Hawkubites
Hawse-hole
Hawthorn
Hay, Hagh, or Haugh
Hayston (Frank)
Hayward
Hazazel
Hazel
Hazel-nut
Head
Head Shaved (Get your)

Linking here:

Hectors