Lexicographical Neighbors of Heezie
Literary usage of Heezie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pocket Dictionary of the Scottish Idiom in which the Signification of the by Robert Motherby (1826)
"heezie, s. motion in a swing or over the top of a wave cine ... heezie (to lend
a person a -_ manb mit ..."
2. Pocket Dictionary of the Scottish Idiom: In which the Significance of the by Robert Motherby (1826)
"heezie, s. motion in a swing or over the top of a wave cine ... heezie (to lend
a person a -, mcmb mit einem ..."
3. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1815)
"... said aloud, "If he had stuck ' by the waj^, I would have lent him a heezie,
the dirty ' scoundrel, as willingly as ever I pitched a boddle. ..."
4. Guy Mannering by Walter Scott (1910)
"... said aloud, ' If he had stuck by the way, I would have lent him a heezie, the
dirty scoundrel, as willingly as ever I pitched a boddle. ..."
5. The Laird of Logan, Or, Anecdotes and Tales Illustrative of the Wit and by David Robertson, John Donald Carrick, William Motherwell, Andrew Henderson (1889)
"... when the ladder gies such a creak and heezie up and doun, that I thocht it
was all up, and that haith of us were on the ;ve of spinning heads ower heels ..."
6. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"heezie—A mighty lift. HELL'S-HOLES—Those dark nooks which are dreaded as being
haunted with bogles. HELTER-SKELTER—Bounding forward, fearless of every thing ..."
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