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Hands up – To be held at gunpoint

Harden – Disobedient, stubborn, hard headed, someone who does listen or learn

Hambug (or Humbug) – To pester or bother someone

Happy like pappy – Overjoyed

Hard Back – Grown up and one who should know better

Hard Back Indian – Person of East Indian ethnicity, who grew up in the hard way of life, usually tough.

Harden - Disobedient.

Hasecara – Trouble or confusion, e.g. “To make hasecara.”

Hen – An effeminate man

Hi-Lo – Local supermarket chain

Hole strain – Wait a while, hold on a while, e.g. “Doh be so impatient, hole strain”

Horrors –Fretting, e.g “Doh ketch no horrors, doh dig no horrors, don’t fret yourself.”

Hoso – Anteater

Honest truth - The truth e.g. “Well gyul, to tell yuh de hones’ truth, Ah eh buy de gif’ yet”

Hototo (hotoetoe) – A very large amount of anything

How de la vie? – How is life? , how yuh goin’?

How yuh mean? – You don’t say?

Horn – Adultery, when the one you love has an affair with someone else. Usage:

Horner Man- Horner Woman- The person who does the horning

Head Hot – Very busy with things that have to be done immediately, plenty of worries and pressing matters, e.g. “Doh talk to meh, meh head hot right now”

Howdy or howdee – Hi, hello

Huggish ( Hoggish) – Rude, crude, mean behavior