WHat is the origin of the surnmae hucks?
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Did you mean surname Hucks? I found one website that gives a good description of the origin, but I was unable to copy/paste it. The link is below :-)
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I think it's a euphemism for "jacksh-t"\nSo now the question is, where did THAT phrase come from?
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sorry can't find the origin, but did you ever see that TV commercial where the guy is all sweaty and dirty pushing a wheel barrel thru the snow and then the camera backs up and it is supposed to be hell, can't remember what it was for but it was really funny
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The Huns were a group of Central Asian nomadic tribes, who appeared in Europe in the 4th century. It has also become a more general term for any number of Central Asian equestrian nomads or semi-nomads. Most of these peoples are recorded by neighboring peoples to the south, east, and west as having occupied Central Asia roughly from the late 1st century to the mid-5th century.\n\nTheir possible Successor Nations are:\nBulgars \nMagyars \nKhazars \nBashkir \nNorth Caucasian Huns \nOnogurs \nVarious other Turkic peoples \nMongolia \nSilla
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'north' is from Proto-Germanic *norð (of unknown origin); 'south' is from Proto-Germanic *sunð (possibly from Proto-Germanic *sunnon 'sun' + -ð); 'east' is from Proto-Germanic *austo- from Proto-Indo-European *aus- 'dawn'; 'west' is from Proto-Germanic *westaz from Proto-Indo-European *wes- 'evening'
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The origins of this symbol are unknown, but several theories have been proposed. According to one theory, in its original form, the jackass was born in the intense mudslinging that occurred during the presidential race of 1828 as a play on the name of Andrew Jackson, the Democratic candidate. Jackson had been called "Andrew Jackass," and the defiant Jackson adopted the nickname.\n\nOn January 19, 1870, a political cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" revived the donkey as a symbol for the Democratic Party (the symbol had also been used in the 1830s). Cartoonists followed Nast and used the donkey to represent the Democrats, and the elephant to represent the Republicans.
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From: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cho3.htm\n\nQ] From Dr Anthony Rea: “I live in Australia and a few years ago some friends visiting from Canada were perplexed by my father’s use of the term chock-a-block, meaning full. For example, “the street was chock-a-block with cars”. Are you able to shed any light on the origin of this phrase?”\n\n[A] Chock-a-block is actually a fairly widely known North American term, I’m told. I know it well and would use it, though there’s a faint air of being slightly out of date about it. In Britain, it’s now common to hear the abbreviated forms chocka (or chocker), which are both from World War Two services’ slang, and in Australia the closely related chockers.\n\nChock here is the same word as in chock-full, jam-packed full or filled to overflowing. One meaning of chock in the nineteenth century was of two things pressed so tightly against each other that they can’t move. This led to the nautical term that’s the direct origin of the phrase. Block refers to the pulley blocks of the tackle used for various hauling jobs on board ship. These worked in pairs, with the ropes threaded between them. When the men hauling tackle ropes had hoisted the load as far as it would go, the two pulley blocks touched and could move no further. They were then said to be chock-a-block, or crammed together.\n\nThe origin of chock is complicated and not altogether understood. It’s clear that there has been some cross-fertilisation between it and chock in the sense of a lump of wood used as a wedge to stop something moving. That’s closely enough related to our sense to make it seem as though it might be the same word. But the experts think that chock in chock-a-block actually came from chock-full.\n\nThat has been around at least since 1400. It comes from a different source, the verb chokken, as in the Middle English phrase chokken togeder, crammed together. This in turn may be from an Old French verb choquier, to collide or thrust. One of the problems of working out the origin has been that chock-full has appeared in several different spellings—including chuck-full and choke-full—reflecting users’ uncertainty about where it comes from.
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Just in case you didn't catch it when 6 people said the same thing before, the answer to your question is:\n\nthe origin
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there are two supposed origins - \n1. is from the word nut, meaning hard seed, which is called "hnutu" in Old English or "*khnut" in Proto-Germanic\n\n2. from earlier be nutts upon "be very fond of" (1785), which is possibly from nuts (noun, plural) "any source of pleasure" (1617), from nut (described above). Sense influenced probably by metaphoric application of nut to "head" (1846, e.g. to be off one's nut "be insane," 1860). Nut "crazy person, crank" is attested from 1903, (British form nutter first attested 1958).
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Everyone is wrong except the guy who said it was from Anglo-Saxon.  "F..k" has a long pedigree in the Germanic languages.  It was found in Proto-Germanic about 2500 years ago as the verb *fukan 'have intercourse'.  This was not vulgar at that time and was a euphemism for some older word.  Ultimately, it comes from Proto-Indo-European *pug- "to strike", from which we get the borrowed Latin form pugilism 'boxing'.
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It dates back to the tribal period in those cultures, usually. For instance Scotland is the "Land of the Scots" - not initially a political divide as much as a social one. Deustchland, Nederlands, Auckland can all trace back similar routes to being the homeland of a particular group or tribe. It makes more sense than taking the name of a random mapmaker, doesn't it? :)
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The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang suggests that the term may have been introduced in America about 1865 by a popular variety performer named Japanese Tommy. Other references suggest that it may have been sailors’ slang for a street in Yokohama that catered for what one might describe as the special needs of sailors. In Yokohama today a broad thoroughfare called Honcho-dori runs from the centre of the city to the port area, so one that would have been familiar to sailors (dori is the Japanese word for a road, in particular a broad or important one).\n\nWhat seems certain is that hunky-dory was a play on an existing sense of the word hunky for something that was fine, splendid or satisfactory. In turn, this probably derives from the adjective hunk, which means that one is all right or in a safe or good position. This derives from the Dutch honk, meaning “goal” or “home” in a Frisian variant of the game of tag. This word (and presumably the game, too) was said to have been taken by the Dutch to New Amsterdam, later New York, but was first recorded only around the 1840s. It has links to another reduplicated term, hunkum-bunkum. Though the first part sounds a bit like the hunker of hunker down (which is also of Dutch origin), the words seem not to be related.\n\nIt may be that hunky-dory was the result of a bilingual pun, perhaps invented because American sailors knew the word dori and prefixed it with hunky as an imagined Japanese street of earthly delights.
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It's generally attributed to General Prescott at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775.\n\nAnother source says Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw say something similar in 1743.
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Olny srmat poelpe can read thsi I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on !! i can raed it, waht aubot you??\n\nI just found that on my facebook wall yesterday, so I thought it was weird when I saw your question. When I looked it up, I couldn't really find a name for it. The post said the research originated at Cambridge University in England, but the link below says it came from Saberi and Perrott, two researchers in California. I wouldn't trust either source without more info to back it up.
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There are several possible origins of the word, because of various linguistic influences in Colonial America. These vary from Dutch to Native American. The fact of the matter is, no one really knows.\n\nOf the various possibilities, I think the dutch origin makes the most sense. The Dutch name Jan Kees, pronounced "yan kees", was common at the time, and may have been used by non-Dutch to refer to a Dutch colonist, much in same way that a person may refer to a german person as Adolf, when they do not know their name, or a Russian Boris.\n\nThe fact of the matter is that no one really knows.
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From Wikipedia:\n\nThe name appears to derive from the Saxon here meaning army and hlaw meaning hill that was the meeting point of the local Saxon tribe. The village was noted later in Magna Carta and developed as a typical rural area.\n\nHope that's "original" enough!\n\nYour best bet for more detail is the Museum of Harlow ( http://www.tmoh.com ) but there's little available online - you'll need to go there.
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It's usually "Sawney" and is a first name,a variant on "Alexander"Sawney Been was a legendary Scottish  bandit and supposed cannibal.He and his tribe/family  lived in isolation and were supposedly very in-bred and therefore I guess,stupid.