Huddle
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huddle¹
- /ˈhʌdəl/
Rhymes with -ʌdəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”).
noun huddles
- A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another. It’s about as riveting as listening to a huddle of ents discuss the finer points of deciduous shedding.
- A session in which a group of journalists assemble in an informal, dense cluster to question a person of interest. The post-PMQs huddle takes place just outside the press gallery, and all the journalists swarm first around the Prime Minister's press team[…]
- A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
- A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.
- A dense and disorderly crowd.
verb huddles · huddling · huddled
- To crowd together. The sheep huddled together seeking warmth.
- To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb. Just south of Wamphray station they overtook the runaway. The dim figure of Mitchell could be seen sitting huddled behind the stormboard. They shouted and whistled. He paid no attention.
- To get together and discuss a topic. George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Man
- To form a huddle.
- To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system. Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,[…]makes a medley and confusion.
- To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together). Huddle up a peace.
- To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move.
adjective
- Huddled, confused, congested. There was in Sicilie a certaine fisherman who resembled in all points Sura the pro-consull, not onely in visage and feature of the face, but also in mowing with his mouth when he spake, in drawing his tongue short, and in his huddle and thicke speech.
Huddle²
Where it comes from
Variant of Hudd.
proper noun
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
