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- interjection Dated form of
hey ho .
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Examples
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Our wedding was followed by a visit to the Hot Springs of Virginia; and then "heigho," and a flight for the North.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902
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Most certainly -- the best; and then, heigho! for the dogs and sleds and the Hudson Bay Country.
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Most certainly -- the best; and then, heigho! for the dogs and sleds and the Hudson Bay Country.
THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010
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Of her lover to be the prate of the censurers, heigho!
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Lady Griffin, since your avowal yesterday, has not spoken a word to your poor Matilda; has declared that she will admit no one (heigho! not even you, my Algernon); and has locked herself in her own dressing-room.
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"But, heigho! the vacation will soon be ended, and then for school again."
The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill
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"Oh, that was a dreadful heigho!" she says; "you must be in love."
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous
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"Yes; there you are sighing: that 'heigho!' was dreadful."
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous
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It is only when he is quite alone that he drops his jaw, and stretches his legs; then heigho! arises like a smoke, and envelopes him becomingly, the beautiful native well-bred torpidity of the gods, of poetic boredom, of the Oxford manner.
The Precept of Peace 1921
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"And heigho!" said Richard, "I am attestedly a greater fool than he, but I begin to weary of a folly so thin-blooded.".
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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