Hopping Giles.

A lame person; so called from St. Giles, the tutelar saint of cripples, who was himself lame.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Hookey Walker
Hooped Pots
Hoopoe (Upupa Epops)
Hop
Hop-o-my-Thumb
Hope
Hopeful
Hope-on-High Bomby
Hopkins (Matthew)
Hopkinsians
Hopping Giles
Hopton
Horace
Horatian Metre (An)
Horatio
Horn
Horn, Horns
Horn-book
Horn-gate
Horn of Fidelity
Horn of Plenty [Cornu-copia]