Brewer's: Hectors

Street bullies and brawlers who delighted in being as rude as possible, especially to women. Robbery was not their object, but simply to get talked about. (See Hawkubites.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Hecuba
Hector
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