Hag old, depraved woman; to chop or cut
Hagging-block where meat is chopped
Haggard stack yard
Hake rob an orchard
Hallion abusive term for unattractive person, usually woman
Hanch snap
At Hand close by
A hand’s turn the smallest item of work
To my hand convenient
A bad hand at unskilled
Hamsel first use of anything
Haveral coarse, silly
Hap to cover or clothe
Well-happed well clad
Happed with a spade buried
HARD hardy morning frosty morning
Hard of hearing deaf
Hard man difficult/close-fisted/paramilitary
Hard tack strong drink
Hard hat bowler hat, by extension an Orangeman
Hard word negative assessment
Hard-used badly-used
Hairy[harey] cunning, evasive tactics, like a hare: scary a hairy experience
Harl a lump
Harn harden
Harem-scarem wild
Hash slash
Hate 1. quantity ‘put a hate o’ salt in the broth’
2. bit ‘divil a hate I care’
3. ‘not a hate to his story’, it’s untrue
4. heat, ‘the birds’ tongues were hangin’ out wi’ the hate’
Head 1. headway, ‘making no head with his lessons’
2. ‘not a word out o’ yer head!’, be silent
3. ‘he’d ate yer head off’, he would shout loud at you
4. ‘over the head of’, because, i.e. ‘it’s all over the head of you’
5. ‘good heads’, clever people
Head-rig ridge where the plough-horse turns
Heart-scalded very seriously troubled by
Hear-tell I heard it said, ‘I hear-tell he’s for moving’
Heartening encouragement, ‘a sunny day’s a heartenin’ in the hay field’
Heartsome cheerful
Heavy charge weighty burden
Heavy-han’-ful troublesome, ‘the boy’s a heavy-han’-ful’
Heavy on the leather walks unevenly, wears out shoes frequently
Heavy-headed stupid
Heavy-handed footery, physically inept
Hector bully [also well-loved 60s Newry market-trader!]
Hedge conceal, dodge, ‘he can hedge, all right!’
Heel-in place plant temporarily in the soil
A light heel a good dancer
Heel upend a cart
Heel-end the very end, ‘at the heel-end of the evening’
Heels foremost as corpse carried from house, ‘he won’t budge again until he’ll go out heels-foremost’
Het heat, pickle, ‘he was in a great het over it’
Helter-skelter disorder
Hinch thigh
Hilt-nor-hare sign nor light, ‘I saw neither hilt nor hare o’ them’
Himself [as in ‘not’] ‘he’s not himself at all’, he’s feeling unwell
Himself [ as in ‘full of’] ‘he’s full of himself’, conceited
Hipple limp
Hirple to walk with difficulty
Hit catch, ‘unless he puts his best fut for’ard he’ll not hit the bus’
Hobble trouble, ‘she’s in a quare hobble’
Hoke to hollow out, excavate, search for, ‘hoke it out, will ye?’
Holm sheltered land
Home grave, as in ‘the long home’
Horn to gore, ‘the cow horned the wee calf’
Hot-foot go speedily
Houghle move awkwardly
Hoult hold, grip, catch ‘take a good hoult of it there!’
Hudders top sheaves of a stook, ‘put the hudders on the stook’, i.e. draw your story to a close
Hugger-muggery shameful or secret conduct
Hunker crouch
Hunker-slider untrustworthy person
Hurry usu. in the negative, ‘shure there’s no hurry’ or ‘take yer hurry in your hand’
Hursel bronchial-sounding, ‘he had a hursel in he’s throat’
Hut hit, ‘he hut me first, he did!’