A JUDICIAL DECISION ON "HUMPH."
The meaning of the word humph"' was the subject of a, judicial decision in the Irish Court of Appeal lately. Four judges of the Queen's Bunch Division, from which the appeal was taken, were unable to come to a, unanimous decision as to (he meaning of the word. Mr. Justice .Madden and Air. Justice Boyd held that, " humph," as used by Sir Walter Scott and Miss Austen in their novels, was an expression of dissent, while the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Burton inclined to the conclusion that "humph'' only meant a "dissatisfied condition of mind." The Court of Appeal has now decided that the word is "an expression of doubt or dissatisfaction," or, as Lord Justice Walker put if, ill the. words of the Century Dictionary, a "gruut of dissatisfaction."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11686, 22 June 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)
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