Hool or hooley; the same as a Black swop.
Hot-foot; at once, immediately:--'Off I went hot-foot.' 'As soon as James heard the news, he wrote a letter hot-foot to his father.'
Huggers or hogars, stockings without feet. (Ulster.)
Hulk; a rough surly fellow. (Munster.) A bad person. (Simmons: Armagh.) Irish _olc_, bad.
Hunker-slide; to slide on ice sitting on the hunkers (or as they would say in Munster, sitting on one's _grug_) instead of standing up straight: hence to act with duplicity: to shirk work:--'None of your hunker-sliding for me.' (Ulster.)
Hurling; the common game of ball and hurley or _commaun_. The chief terms (besides those mentioned elsewhere) are:--_Puck_, the blow of the hurley on the ball: The _goals_ are the two gaps at opposite sides of the field through which the players try to drive the ball. When the ball is thrown high up between two players with their { 276} commauns ready drawn to try which will strike it on its way down: that is _high-rothery_. When two adjacent parishes or districts contended (instead of two small parties at an ordinary match), that was _scoobeen_ or 'conquering goal' (Irish _scuab_, a broom: _scoobeen_, _sweeping_ the ball away). I have seen at least 500 on each side engaged in one of these _scoobeens_; but that was in the time of the eight millions--before 1847. Sometimes there were bad blood and dangerous quarrels at scoobeens. See Borick, Sippy, Commaun, and Cool. (For the ancient terms see my 'Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland,' p. 513.) For examples of these great contests, see Very Rev. Dr. Sheehan's 'Glenanaar,' pp. 4, 231.
Hurt: a whortleberry: hurts are _fraughans_, which see. From _whort_. (Munster.)
Husho or rather huzho; a lullaby, a nurse-song, a cradle-song; especially the chorus, consisting of a sleepy _cronaun_ or croon--like 'shoheen-sho Loo-lo-lo,' &c. Irish _suantraighe_ [soontree]. 'The moaning of a distant stream that kept up a continual _cronane_ like a nurse _hushoing_.' 'My mother was hushoing my little sister, striving to quieten her.' (Both from Crofton Croker.) 'The murmur of the ocean _huzhoed_ me to sleep.' (Irish Folk Song:--'McKenna's Dream.')
Idioms; influence of the Irish language on, 4:--derived from Irish, 23.