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English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English *hoxene, *huxene (only attested as hokschyne, with alteration after schyne), from Old English hōhsinu, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hasinu, from Proto-Germanic *hanhasinwō, from *hanhaz (“heel”) + *senawō (“sinew”). Compare hough, hox, and sinew.
Pronunciation
Noun
huxen (plural huxens)
- (West Country, obsolete) The hough; the back of the hip.
1648, Robert Herrick, “The Beggar to Mab, the Fairie Queen”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine , London: John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho Hunt, , →OCLC, page 262:Or ſvveet Lady reach to me / The Abdomen of a Bee; / Or commend a Crickets-hip, / Or his Huckson, to my Scrip.
1746 July, “An Exmoor Scolding”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume XVI, number 9, page 354, column 1:Thy hozen muxy up zo vurs thy gammerels to tha very huckſheens o' tha, thy gore coat oll a girred, thy head clathing oll a fouſt […]
1876, Oliver Madox-Brown, “The Dwale Bluth”, in William Rosetti, F. Hueffer, editors, The Dwale Bluth, Hebditch's Legacy, and Other Literary Remains, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 68:"Ers stratted‡ ter th' huxens§! Eh! come an' lack vor yersel," she screamed in a voice made inarticulate by her shrill and immodest laughter, as the unfortunate man waded at last out of the black water, and stood gazing dolefully at his dirty stockings and shoes.