Richard Huloet was a 16th-century English lexicographer. He was born at Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. He was a contemporary of Peter Levens, John Withals, and John Véron.
According to some sources, Samuel Johnson and he were the first writers in the English language to use the term "honeymoon". He was the author of the Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum (1552). The book was dedicated to Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely and chancellor of England.Stein, Gabriele. 2006. Richard Huloet as a Recorder of the English Lexicon. In Selected Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX), ed. R. W. McConchie et al., 24-33. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hel-lex/2005/paper1343.pdf
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