Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
height .
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- noun Obsolete spelling of
height . - noun US, proscribed Alternative form of
height .
Etymologies
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Examples
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another word I've heard lately is "heighth" – as in width and heighth… it's like nails on a chalkboard to me
Sex and the City 2: Desperately Dated Chick Fest or Genre Crossing Stunner? - Pink Raygun.com 2010
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There are minor blips, like the mound heighth, but for the most part play was extraordinarily consistent.
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Their names, they said, were Marty and Sonietta, bezoomny enough and in the heighth of their childish fashion, so I said:
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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We hear, repeatedly, about people who, jokingly to only themselves, say or do things that in this enrivonment are the heighth of stupidity.
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You could viddy who was the real important veck right away, very tall and with blue glazzies and with real horrorshow platties on him, the most lovely suit, brothers, I have ever viddied, absolutely in the heighth of fashion.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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I was in this fillying about, smecking away and being like the ring-leader, dressed in the heighth of nadsat fashion.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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Biscuits had a great flavor, were fluffy and moist and had a good heighth.
Are you familiar with wacky cake? | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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Today Google Research announced an algorithm for resizing videos that will preserve the width to heighth ratio for "salient" images while squishing and stretching the "non-salient" parts of the shot.
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Today Google Research announced an algorithm for resizing videos that will preserve the width to heighth ratio for "salient" images while squishing and stretching the "non-salient" parts of the shot.
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Solo, heighth has always set my teeth on edge, probably because I know reason or historical basis for it.
Behind the scenes at the UK's highest court Peter Rozovsky 2010
arby commented on the word heighth
I hate this so much!! My dad and my boyfriend both say this, even though I've explained to them multiple times that it is not real.
May 15, 2007
uselessness commented on the word heighth
Good call, I have a list for this one.
May 15, 2007
seanahan commented on the word heighth
length, breadth, width, and heighth, makes complete sense.
May 16, 2007
uselessness commented on the word heighth
Same with depth. But there are a lot of "correct" things in our crazy language that don't make sense. ;-)
May 16, 2007
arby commented on the word heighth
Yeah, no, it's perfectly logical assumption, I don't blame anyone for thinking it made sense. It just drives me crazy that they act like I'm the one who's making it up when I say "height".
May 18, 2007
reesetee commented on the word heighth
Arby, I say fight fire with fire. Make up a word that drives *them* crazy.
Heehee.
May 18, 2007
uselessness commented on the word heighth
lent? bret? widt? dept? Emphasize the hard "t" at the end of each, and you're golden. Spit when you say it for effect.
May 18, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word heighth
Heighth is the regular formation, and was used by Milton and Burke for example, but was progressively eased out by -t forms from the Middle English period, and seems to have been effectively dead in standard English by 1800.
November 7, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word heighth
I say, let the dead lie in peace.
November 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word heighth
Indeed a noble deat.
November 7, 2008
alexz commented on the word heighth
wideth
March 3, 2018