To hug one's self, to congratulate one's self; to chuckle.
Hug, n. A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or
in wrestling. Fuller.
Huge (?), a. [Compar. Huger (?); superl. Hugest (?).] [OE. huge, hoge,
OF. ahuge, ahoge.] Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used
esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge
ox; a huge space; a huge difference. "The huge confusion." Chapman. "A
huge filly." Jer. Taylor. -- Huge"ly, adv. -- Huge"ness, n.
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.
Shak.
Syn. -- Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.
Hug"ger (?), n. One who hugs or embraces.
Hug"ger, v. t. & i. To conceal; to lurk ambush. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Hug"ger-mug`ger (?), n. [Scot. huggrie-muggrie; Prov. E. hugger to lie
in ambush, mug mist, muggard sullen.] Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the
phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [Archaic]
Many things have been done in hugger- mugger.
Fuller.
Hug"ger-mug`ger, a. 1. Secret; clandestine; sly.