Hew vs Hugh - What's the difference?
hew | hugh |
To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
* Shakespeare
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To shape; to form.
* Bible, Is. li. 1
* Alexander Pope
(US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with (to).
* 1905 , Albert Osborn, : A Biography ,
* 1998 , and Lawrence Davidson, Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines , Collectors Press, Inc., ISBN 1-888054-12-3, page 103,
* 2008 , , Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-12990-8, page 28,
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*:King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time I hewed that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it."
(obsolete) hue; colour
(obsolete) shape; form
Destruction by cutting down.
* Spenser
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* : Scene 2:
* 1600 , The Shoemaker's Holiday :
* 1894 W. H. Miller, J. Mcaulauy, W. Stevens, The Leisure Hour , Richard Jones (1894), page 651:
* 1996 (Ian Rankin), Let It Bleed , Thorndike Press (2000), ISBN 0786226773, page 68:
* 2011 Hughie Boy Levoy, Chicago Kid , Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 1462853404, page 151:
As a verb hew
is to chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.As a noun hew
is hue; colour.As a proper noun Hugh is
a given name derived from Germanic.hew
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hewen, from (etyl) . See also (l).Verb
- Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.
- Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
- to hew out a sepulchre
- Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn .
- rather polishing old works than hewing out new
]Jennings & Graham, [http://books.google.com/books?id=I3UEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA428&dq=hewed page 428,
- Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
- Inside the stories usually hewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.
- Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties,
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Derived terms
* hewer * rough-hewEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Spenser)
- Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew .
hugh
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself.
- Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain, / Saint Hugh be our good speed. / Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, / Nor helps good hearts in need.
- "You are engaged to Mr. Harden, I suppose?" "Yes, Mr. Harden. I call him Hugh', his second name. I like the name of '''Hugh'''. The exquisite long vowel pleases me?'''''Hugh! Hugh! ".
- Hugh' McAnally was universally known as "Wee Shug". He didn't know why people called ' Hugh always ended up nicknamed Shug.
- What I had noticed all of my young life, from as early as five years old, was that very few people outside my family knew how to pronounce my name?or spell it. "Hue, Hug, Huge, Huh, Hugo. Everything but my name, HUGH'!" - - - I grew up thinking that I was the only ' Hugh in the world, and all my life I'll be meeting people who will have trouble pronouncing my name.