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Styled My Lord, Grose says this was done in the reign of Richard III., when many deformed men were made peers; but probably the word is the Greek lordos (crooked).

 

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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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Humble Pie
Humbug
Hume (David)
Humming Ale
Hummums (in Covent Garden)
Humour
Humpback (The)
Humphrey (Master)
Humpty Dumpty
Hunchback
Hundred
Hundred
Hundred Days
Hundred-eyed (The)
Hundred-handed (The)
Hundred Miles (A)
Hundred Years War (The)
Hungarian
Hungary Water
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