Humphrey is a softly-spoken person.
Source: tatoeba (3234953)
Humphrey
//ˈhʌmfɹi//
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I neuer ſaw but Humfrey Duke of Gloſter, / Did beare him like a Noble Gentleman: […]
Source: wiktionary
"Hump?" I asked. "Humphrey, really. But everybody calls him Hump. I know a lot of people who avoid calling him by his first name. For a long time people didn't think it was quite proper. But nowadays nobody seems to mind. What's happening to the power of words, Benny? Time was I used to blush at the words scrawled on fences, and now I hear them—everywhere. How are writers going to write books if language is going bland on them?"
Source: wiktionary
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