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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A terrible or repulsive person.

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  • humgruffin: a terrible person

    Usage example:

    The Demoniac crowd

    In an instant seem'd cowed,

    Not one of the crew volunteer'd a reply,

    All shrunk from the glance of that keen-flashing eye,

    Save one horrid humgruffin, who seemed by his talk,

    And the airs he assumed, to be Cock of the walk,

    He quailed not before it, but saucily met it,

    And as saucily said, 'Don't you wish you may get it?'

    THE LAY OF ST. CUTHBERT; OR THE DEVIL'S DINNER-PARTY:

    A LEGEND OF THE NORTH COUNTREE.

    (The Ingoldsby legends)

    October 27, 2007

  • hee, hee!

    October 27, 2007

  • Love it!

    October 27, 2007

  • I vote "The Devil's Dinner-Party" BEST.SUBTITLE.EVER

    April 13, 2009

  • A blond plus a hero and humgruffin

    And all of the terror he could stuff in,

    But the true Hitchcockian

    Suspenseful concoction

    Didn't bubble without the MacGuffin.

    September 30, 2014