hinnocent

English

Adjective

hinnocent (comparative more hinnocent, superlative most hinnocent)

  1. Nonstandard form of innocent, representing a hypercorrection in h-dropping accents.
    • 1859, F. Baldwen, The Two Brides, or, The French Château and the English Home, London: James Blackwood, Paternoster Row, page 182:
      Such crashes all of a sudden, and 'splosions that would frighten any man alive, let alone a woman; and what's worse than all put together, I believe they murder all the hinnocent cats and dogs that ever they catches.

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