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Hal

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //hæl//
  • //hɑl//
  • //hɔl//
  • //hɔːl//

A diminutive of the male given names Henry, Harold and Harry.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given names Henry, Harold and Harry.

    I prethee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horſe, good Kings ſonne.

Etymology

A diminutive lambdacism of Harry (compare Sally from Sarah and Moll from Mary).

Forms

plural
Hals
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).