ha'sh

I don't favor callin 'of her Mary, because that was her mother's name, and I couldn't think of two on 'em at once; and Scripter names are generally rather ha'sh.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

They's times when they act cold and ha'sh and nigh to cruel, but that hain't when they're real.

Scattergood Baines Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

I hated to be ha'sh with him, but he needed some education himself, an 'it took a beetle an' wedge to open his mind for it.

Keeping up with Lizzie Irving Bacheller 1904

The old man came and stood near the young man, -- the owner of the voice, -- and said again: "He's too ha'sh."

Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

The old man came and stood near the young man, -- the owner of the voice, -- and said again: "He's too ha'sh."

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

The cousins had seen each other lately, and Private Gellatly had had a talk with the man who was ha'sh.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

Humphrey; but it was there one night that the man who was ha'sh gave him his true character, with much candour and no comment.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

The cousins had seen each other lately, and Private Gellatly had had a talk with the man who was ha'sh.

Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

"He's too ha'sh," said old Alexander Windsor, as he shut the creaking door of the store after a vanishing figure, and turned to the big iron stove with outstretched hands; hands that were cold both summer and winter.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

"Sergeant Fones is too ha'sh," he repeated, as he pulled out the damper and cleared away the ashes with the iron poker.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897