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Definition of Heigh
1. Interjection. An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heigh
1. used to attract attention [interj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heigh
Literary usage of Heigh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"heigh-ho, &C. Unto the ostler at the Bear, She gave a ringlet of her hair. ...
heigh-ho, &C. Ко spark of life was in her shown, No breath they saw, ..."
2. Heart Songs Dear to the American People: And by Them Contributed in the by Joe Mitchell Chapple (1909)
"As I was walk - ing down the street, heigh - o, heigh - o, heigh a. ... Ï -9—b-
o, heigh-o, A prêt - ty girl I chanced to meet, heigh-o, heigh-o, heigh-o. o ..."
3. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"CAMPBELL would a writing go, heigh ho ! said Colburn, Campbell would a writing
go, Whether the people would let him or no, With a Cockrane, Pickersgill, ..."
4. A Vers de Société Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1907)
"Sing heigh-ho, and heigh-ho! Young maids must marry. There grows a flower on
every bough, Sing heigh-ho! There grows a flower on every bough, ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"heigh-ho, &c. No spark of life was in her shown, No breath they saw, ... heigh-ho,
&c: She was not as Г once have Seen Her trip in Martin-Gardens green, ..."
6. Lincoln Literary Collection, Designed for School-room and Family Circle by John Piersol McCaskey, A. Lincoln (1897)
"heigh-HO! heigh-ho ! daisies and buttercups, Mother shall thread them a daisy
chain, Sing them a song of the pretty hedge-sparrow heigh-ho ! daisies and ..."
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