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hey-ho, hey ho, int.|ˈheɪˈhəʊ|
Forms: 5–6 hay ho(e, hey(e how(e, 6 heigho, 7 heigh ho, heigh-ho, hi ho, 6– hey ho.
An utterance, app. of nautical origin, and marking the rhythm of movement in heaving or hauling (cf. heave ho, hale and how, hale n.4 1); often used in the burdens of songs, with various emotional expression, according to intonation. In some later quots. blending with heigh-ho.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. in Ashm. (1652) 157 Hay hoe, careaway, lat the cup go rounde. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre in Ritson Metr. Rom. III. 179 Your maryners shall synge arowe Hey how and rumby lowe. 15..Peebles to Play v, With hey and how rohumbelow, The young folk were full bauld. a1550Frere & Boye 50 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 62 The lytell boye..Of no man had he no care, But sung, hey howe, awaye the mare, And made ioye ynough. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Aug. 54 It fell vpon a holly eue, hey ho hollidaye. Ibid. 78 As the bonilasse passed bye, hey ho bonilasse. 1592G. Harvey New Letter 16 Let him be the Falanta downe diddle of Ryme, the Hay ho halliday of Prose. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 180 Heigh ho, sing heigh ho, vnto the greene holly. 1605― Lear iii. ii. 75 With heigh-ho, the Winde and the Raine. a1614Eng. Helicon in Brit. Bibl. (1812) III. 188, I knowe a simple countrie hinde, Heigh hoe, sillie swaine. 1659Pol. Ballads (Percy Soc.) III. 147 Sing, hi ho, Wil. Lenthall, who shall our generall be? 1848Dickens Dombey v, [He] whistled ‘With a hey ho chevy!’ all through. |