hey
/heɪ
/exclamation
1Used to attract attention, to express surprise, interest, or annoyance, or to elicit agreement: hey, what’s going on here?...
- It's at this time of the year that I like to say to myself, hey! let's forget about the mistakes of the past year - and instead look forward with excitement to the year ahead.
- I read about all the interest and I think, hey fantastic, but nobody calls me.
- And if two people love each other and really believe they can be partners for life hey, good luck to 'em.
1.1US Used as a friendly greeting: I just called to say hey...
- ‘Gianni, this is my friend Danny, Danny this is Gianni.’ ‘Hey,’ Gianni said and sat back down next to Emily.
- Hey, you guys, sorry I'm late.
- Bill popped his head in. ‘Hey Nicole, hey Jake.’
Phrases
hey up
what the hey
Origin
Natural exclamation: first recorded in Middle English.
Rhymes
- orange milkweed
- orange mint
- orange moth
- orange oil
- Orange Order
- Orange parade
- orange peel
- orange-peel skin
- orange pekoe
- Orange People
- Orange procession
- orange quarter
- orangequit
- orange-red
- Orange River
- orange-root
- orange roughy
- orangery
- orange sallow
- grand monde
- grandmother
- grandmother chair
- grandmother clock
- grandmotherhood
- grandmother-in-law