Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to express fatigue, mild surprise, boredom, disappointment, or sometimes exultation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An exclamation expressing a degree of surprise, astonishment, or exultation, or more usually, as languidly uttered, some weariness, marking conventionally a sigh or a yawn: also sometimes as a verb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To chant "heigh-ho", a cadence-count used for synchronized walking, marching, pulling, lifting, etc.
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Examples
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I'm filling in as one of Snow White's dwarves, Nasty; heigh-ho, heigh-ho, be-otch.
Floyd Elliot: Vasectomy? Vasecta You! Floyd Elliot 2011
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Florimel not a name I care for, but heigh-ho is a mad, mad girl.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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I seem to be alone in my lack of patriotism, but heigh-ho.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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They encourage me not to lose my Oxfordshire lilt, country accents being so fashionable now, but I am not sure I could if I tried, so heigh-ho.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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I seem to be alone in my lack of patriotism, but heigh-ho.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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They encourage me not to lose my Oxfordshire lilt, country accents being so fashionable now, but I am not sure I could if I tried, so heigh-ho.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Florimel not a name I care for, but heigh-ho is a mad, mad girl.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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It is like a fairy-tale, I said, tying the last of my laces and checking my face in the mirror—my cheeks were flushed pink, not enough powder, but heigh-ho.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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It is like a fairy-tale, I said, tying the last of my laces and checking my face in the mirror—my cheeks were flushed pink, not enough powder, but heigh-ho.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Louie started singing, Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, its off for food we go.
Freaked Out Annie Bryant 2009
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