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Definition: HEIGH-HO |
HEIGH-HOInterjection1. An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc. |
Date "HEIGH-HO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Lamentation | Interjection: heigh-ho! alas! alack! O dear! ah me! woe is me! lackadaisy! well a day! lack a day! alack a day! wellaway! alas the day! O tempora O mores! what a pity! miserabile dictu! O lud lud! too true! |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Song Titles | Heigh-Ho (performing artist: Snow White) | |
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| "HEIGH-HO" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HEIGH-HO" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "HEIGH-HO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nun ja (oh well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eigh-hohay vai (alack, alas, fie, lack, lax, my, oh, oh dear, oh me, ouch, well, woe), iu (ho), ah (ah, dear me, goodness me, hah, my goodness, oh, oh heavens, oho, phew, pshaw, sigh, tut, very well, well). (various references) скуку и т. п., выражающее досаду, восклицание (ejaculation, exclamation, hey-day). (various references) hej hopp. (various references) คำอุทานแส"งความเหนื่อยล้า เบื่อหน่าย ผิ"หวัง ฯลฯ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-h-h-i-o" | |
-2 letters: heigh. | |
-3 letters: high. | |
-4 letters: ego, ghi, gie, heh, hie, hoe, hog. | |
-5 letters: eh, go, he, hi, ho, oe, oh. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-h-h-i-o" | |
+5 letters: throughither. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 49 47 48 2D 48 4F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01001001 01000111 01001000 00101101 01001000 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E I G H - H O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0049 0047 0048 002D 0048 004F |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4239434142154249 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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