humgruffin

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  1. A terrible or repulsive person. [Humorous.] All shrunk from the glance of that keen-flashing eye, Save one horrid Humgruffin, who seem'd by his talk, And the airs he assumed, to be cock of the walk. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 198.

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  1. A made word, based on hum, v. i., + gruff, mixed with griffin.
 

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