Note 29 — PART II
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This word is defined by the Standard Dictionary (New York, 1895) as a Scottish slang word meaning “unlawful sexual intercourse.” It is apparently allied to the obsolete Northumbrian word “houghen-moughen,” meaning “greedy, ravenous”—see Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary, iii (London, 1902), p. 247.—Eds. ↑