houghany

== Yola == === Etymology === From early *hougheen, from Middle English houghynge (“hamstringing”). Compare lacheny (“laughing”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhuːxəniː/ === Adjective === houghany vulgar, stupid === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 47