or hub, subs. (colloquial).—A husband.
1798. T. MORTON, Secrets Worth Knowing, Epilogue.
| The wife poor thing, at first so blithe and chubby, | |
| Scarce knows again her lover in her HUBBY. |
1771. G. A. STEVENS, Songs, Comic and Satyrical, ‘Chastity.’
| What cou’d HUBBY do then? what could HUBBY do? | |
| But Sympathy struck, as she cry’d, he cry’d too. |
1811. POOLE, Hamlet Travestie, ii., 3. Now, madam, this once was your HUBBY.
1883. Referee, 17 April, p. 3, c. 2. I did hear it whispered that her parents and guardians, or her horrified HUBBY, had turned the key on her.
