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▪ I. ‖ Hebe1|ˈhiːbiː|
[a. Gr. ἥβη youthful prime, puberty; name of the daughter of Zeus and Hera.]
1. The goddess of youth and spring, represented as having been originally the cup-bearer of Olympus; hence applied fig. to:
a. A waitress, a barmaid;
b. A woman in her early youth.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iii. Magnificence 862 Here, many a Hebê fair, here more than one Quick⁓seruing Chiron neatly waits vpon The Beds and Boords. 1815Scott Guy M. xliv, Shortly after, the same Hebe brought up a plate of beef collops. 1889L. B. Walford Stiff-n. Generation I. ii. 35 ‘Good heavens! what a perfect Hebe!’
2. Astron. Name of the sixth of the asteroids.
1858Herschel Outl. Astron. (ed. 5) 335 The discovery of Astræa and Hebe by Professor Hencke in 1845 and 1847.
3. Bot. [mod.L. (P. Commerson in A. L. Jussieu Genera Plantarum (1789) 105).] A member of a large genus of shrubs so called, mostly native to New Zealand, belonging to the family Scrophulariaceæ, and formerly included in the genus Veronica.
[1921F. W. Pennell in Rhodora XXIII. 2 The austral distribution, with its suggestion of genetic remoteness, emphasizes Hebe's claim to recognition as a genus. 1927Cockayne & Allan in Trans. N.Z. Inst. LVII. 13 A species is usually transferred to Hebe only when..we are pretty well convinced it is valid.] 1961Amat. Gardening 21 Oct. 5/1 The hebes, as the shrubby veronicas are now called. 1972Country Life 23 Mar. 690/1 Our hebes have come through remarkably well: even the tenderest kinds like Simon Deleaux and Andersonii Variegata.
4. attrib. and Comb., as Hebe bloom; Hebe-like adj.; Hebe's cup, Heidelberg Punch (Cassell's Dict. Cookery); Hebe vase, a small vase like a cotyliscos of the kind which Hebe is represented as bearing (Brewer Dict. Phr. & Fable).
1838Lytton Alice vi. vi, A certain melancholy in her countenance..I am sure not natural to its Hebe-like expression. 1842Tennyson Gardener's Dau. 136 Her violet eyes, and all her Hebe bloom.
▪ II. Hebe, hebe2|hiːb|
Also Heeb.
[abbrev. of Hebrew n. 1.]
A derogatory term for a Jew.
1932J. T. Farrell Studs Lonigan (1936) iv. 71 He should've been a nigger or a hebe instead of Irish. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 374/2 Heeb, Jewish person. 1950T. Sugrue in M. Hay Foot of Pride p. xx, He might go through the whole of his life without expressing more than a casual distaste for ‘the Hebes’. 1953E. F. Russell Somewhere a Voice (1965) 11 Lastly there was Sammy Finestone... A typical Hebe. 1972National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 17/4 They will be followed close upon their heels by miserly Hebes, and cheating kikes. |