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Hottentot

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Rude, uncultured, a boor. As “You are a perfect Hottentot.”

 

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

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Hostler
Hot
Hot Cockles
Hot Cross Buns
Hot-foot
Hot Water (In)
Hotch-pot
Hotch-potch
Hotspur
Hottentot
Hougoumont
Hound
Houqua
Hour
Houri (pl. Houris)
House
¶ House
¶ House
House-bote
House-flag (A)