H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.
List of Words and Phrases 11
| hardly, 306 |
| hardshell, 94 |
| hard-shell Baptists, 131 |
| hardvaer-staar, 413 |
| hardware-dealer, 114 |
| hardware-store, 413 |
| hare, 64, 126 |
| hari-kari, 99 |
| hart, 245 |
| harth, 245 |
| has-been, 32, 190 |
| hashery, 187 |
| hash-foundry, 190 |
| hash-slinger, 191 |
| has went, 21 |
| hath, 70 |
| hat-shop, 168 |
| hat to, 287 |
| haul, n., 188, v., 63, 64 |
| hausfrau, 103 |
| haut ton, 168 |
| have, 269, 273, 286 |
| have an ax to grind, vp., 93 |
| have not, 289 |
| haven’t, 289 |
| have the floor, vp., 93 |
| have the goods, vp., 366 |
| hay-barrack, 54 |
| hay-cock, 57 |
| hay-stack, 57 |
| handsome, 110 |
| harbor, 221 |
| harbour, 221 |
| haze, v., 175 |
| he, 291 |
| head, n., 121–231 |
| head-clerk, 113 |
| headed, 278 |
| head-electrician, 145 |
| head-liner, 114, 123 |
| head-master, 121, 122, 169 |
| head-mistress, 121 |
| headquarter, v., 192 |
| healthful, 181 |
| healthy, 181 |
| hear, n., 283; hear, v., 273 |
| hear, hear! 134 |
| heard, 71 |
| heart, 214 |
| heat, v., 273 |
| heath, 57 |
| heave, 273 |
| heavenwards, 182 |
| Hebrew, 131, 145 |
| hed, 231, 245 |
| heeler, 98 |
| heerd, 273, 277–283 |
| heern, 273, 283 |
| heft, v., 63, 65 |
| hefty, 65 |
| heighth, 106, 318 |
| heimer, suf., 199 |
| heinie, 333 |
| heinous, 231, 232 |
| held, 274 |
| hell, 152 |
| hell-box, 95 |
| hell-fired, 153 |
| hellion, 91 |
| hello, 92 |
| hello-girl, 188 |
| hell-roaring, 91 |
| helluva, 153 |
| help, n., 39, 41, 117, 144, 161 |
| Help Wanted, 161–162 |
| helpt, 245 |
| helt, 274, 280 |
| hemidemisemiquaver, 132 |
| hemorrhage, 223, 240 |
| hence, 307 |
| her, 291 |
| herb, 72 |
| here, 180, 307 |
| here’bouts, 307 |
| hern, 291, 292, 293 |
| hers, 293 |
| het, 273, 277 |
| het up, vp., 100, 273 |
| hiccup, 246 |
| hickory, 51 |
| hid, 273 |
| hidden, 273 |
| hide, 273 |
| high-ball, 405, 99 |
| high-boot, 113 |
| high-brow, 166, 174, 190 |
| highfalutin, 93, 163 |
| high-hat, 168 |
| high-school 120 |
| High street, 359 |
| hike, v., 166, 175 |
| hill-side, 39 |
| him, 291 |
| himself, 303 |
| hired-girl, 57, 118, 168 |
| hired-man, 57 |
| hire-purchase, 118 |
| hire-purchase plan, 114 |
| his, 291, 293 |
| His Excellency, 139, 140 |
| His Highness, 139 |
| His Honor, 140 |
| hisn, 263, 291, 293 |
| hisself, 263, 303 |
| hist, 315 |
| h’ist, 106, 273 |
| h’isted, 273 |
| hit, v., 273 |
| hitched, 16, 384 |
| hither, 180, 307 |
| hit the dirt, vp., 393 |
| hoak, 185 |
| hoakum, 194 |
| hoarding, 35, 113, 117, 168 |
| hobo, 15, 15, 159, 166, 194 |
| hoch, 104 |
| Hock, 115, 119, 246 |
| Hock-cup, 26 |
| hod-carrier, 114 |
| Hodge, 134 |
| hodman, 114 |
| hoe-cake, 43, 55, 57 |
| hoed, 245 |
| hog, v., 32 |
| hoggish, 306 |
| hog-pen, 114 |
| hog-wallow, 43, 55 |
| hofbräu, 320, 250 |
| hoist, n., 315, 114, v., 106 |
| hola, 203 |
| hold on, vp., 39, 105 |
| holden, 285 |
| hold, v., 274, 285 |
| hold out, vp., 128 |
| hold-up, 15, 15, vp., 362 |
| holler, v., 92, 274, 318 |
| hollered, 274 |
| holloa, 92 |
| holsum, 247 |
| holt, 317 |
| holy gee, 153 |
| holy Jesus, 153 |
| Holy Joe, 369 |
| holy orders, 130 |
| holy-roller, 131 |
| hombre, 202 |
| homely, 68, 127 |
| homœopathy, 241 |
| home-run, 129 |
| homespun, 67, 162 |
| homestead, 414 |
| hominy, 41, 50, 52 |
| homologize, 60 |
| Hon., 139 |
| hon. agent, 141 |
| hon. gentleman, 124 |
| honor, 246, 247, 228–231, 221, 233 |
| honorary, 227 |
| Honorable, 139 |
| honorable friend, 124 |
| honorary, 140 |
| honors, 169 |
| honorarium, 227 |
| honorific, 227 |
| honour, 221, 227, 228, 231, 239 |
| honourable, 228 |
| hooch, 100, 200, 202 |
| hoochfest, 199 |
| hood, 114 |
| hoodlum, 15, 15, 159 |
| hoodoo, 54, 122 |
| hoof, 219 |
| hook, n., 54, 352, 393 |
| hooligan, 159 |
| hoop, 219 |
| hooverize, 175, 187, 191 |
| hooves, 219 |
| hoo-zat, 212 |
| hop, v., 109, 393 |
| hornswoggle, 92 |
| horse’s neck, 99 |
| horrid, 216 |
| horror, 226 |
| horrour, 228 |
| horse of another colour, 42 |
| horse-sense, 95 |
| horse-shoer, 282 |
| hospital, 72, 114, 194 |
| hospitalize, 175 |
| hospital-nurse, 116, 119 |
| hostil, 245 |
| hostile, 212, 218 |
| hostler, 224, 225 |
| hot, 216 |
| hot-box, 97 |
| hotel, 72, 144 |
| hotel-valet, 145 |
| hot-stuff, 166 |
| hot-tamale, 101 |
| house-clean, v., 192 |
| housekeep, v., 185 |
| house-master, 169 |
| house of ill repute, 150 |
| house of questionable repute, 150 |
| hove, 273, 277 |
| hub, 39 |
| huckleberry, 56 |
| huckster, 114 |
| humble, 72 |
| humbug, n., 40 |
| humor, 221 |
| humorous, 227 |
| humour, 221–227 |
| Hun, 188, 368 |
| hunderd, 318 |
| hung, 273, 278 |
| hunker, 40 |
| hunkie, 333 |
| hunky-dory, 96 |
| hunting, n., 114, 134 |
| hunyadi, 333 |