humby

One even had a word I can't find anything else about: humby, in this context:

February 2007 2007

Household duties -- worried over new poplin dress, bought last winter which is a perfect humby -- looking as if it were rough dried.

February 2007 2007

Household duties -- worried over new poplin dress, bought last winter which is a perfect humby -- looking as if it were rough dried.

The Culture of Sewing, edited by Barbara Burman - A Dress A Day 2007

One even had a word I can't find anything else about: humby, in this context:

The Culture of Sewing, edited by Barbara Burman - A Dress A Day 2007

And if you can't find out what a humby is, with your skills and knowledge, I won't bother using that method of work avoidance!

The Culture of Sewing, edited by Barbara Burman - A Dress A Day 2007

I am not sufferd to bow the knees of my body, I humby crave to speke with your higthnis; wiche I wolde not be so bold to desier, if I knewe my selfe most clere as I knowe myselfe most tru.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 Various

Wherfore you lordes I humby you exhorte [error for humbly?]

A Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght (A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth) Stephen Hawes

May I humby ask that you start producing this wonderfully designed

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