To settle one’s hash, verb. phr. (common).—To defeat one’s object; to
kill. For synonyms, see Cook one’s Goose.
1864. Browning, Dramatis Personæ. ‘Youth and Art.’ You’ve to settle
yet Gibson’s hash.
c. 1871. Butler, Nothing to Wear. To use an expression More
striking than classic, it settled my hash.
1883. Punch, Nov. 3, p. 208, c. 1. That one stab, with a
clasp-knife, which settled the young Squire’s hash in less than two
seconds.
1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger’s Sweetheart, p. 123. We’ll keep the
cops off till you settle his hash, the rest replied, getting round
us.
To go back on one’s hash, verb. phr. (American).—To turn; to succumb;
to weaken (q.v.).
Hash-house, subs. (American).—A cheap eating-house; a grubbing crib
(q.v.).
1883. Daily Telegraph, 10 Jan., p. 5, c. 4. There are [in New York]
lunch counters, cookshops, ‘penny’ restaurants, fifteen-cent
restaurants, commonly called hash-houses and foreign cafés.
Haslar-hag, subs. (nautical).—A nurse at the Haslar Hospital. Cf., Hag.
Hastings. To be none of the Hastings sort, verb. phr. (old
colloquial).—To be slow, deliberate, or slothful.
1690. b. e., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. You are none of the Hastings,
of him that loses an Opportunity or a Business for want of
Dispatch.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. He is none of the Hastings sort; a
saying of a slow, loitering fellow: an allusion to the Hastings
pea, which is the first in season.
Hasty, adj. (old: now recognised).—Rash; passionate; quick to move.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hasty, very Hot on a sudden.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Hasty G., subs. (Cambridge Univ.).—See quot.
1883. Daily News, 24 Mar., p. 5, c. 2. Mr. Weller’s own hasty g.
(as Cambridge men say when they mean a ‘hasty generalisation’).
Hasty Pudding, subs. (common).—1. A bastard. For synonyms, see Bloody
Escape.