Lexicographical Neighbors of Humphs
Literary usage of Humphs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted edited by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Sidney Joseph Madge (1901)
"... ...02 (> Give Jane Clifford for a sisting with humphs. Small POX 020 „ 29—For
Severn Hund. of Coles for humphs. when fm Small Pox 070 Mar. ..."
2. The Drama of Yesterday & To-day by Clement Scott (1899)
"These were called in the profession " humphs." So that when any one entered the
theatre and ventured to remark, " A splendid house, isn't it ? ..."
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