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harkye

harkye interjection: listen! Pay attention!

Interjection

harkye

  1. (obsolete) Listen! Pay attention!
    • Harkye, friend: I have heard a sort of little song sung about the glass shoe, and it is not for a parcel of dirt that it will go out of my hands.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 316

Origin of harkye

From the phrase hark (“listen”) + ye (“you”).

Questions about harkye

What does harkye mean?
Harkye means listen! Pay attention!
What part of speech is harkye?
Harkye is an interjection.

Words near harkye in the dictionary

  1. Harkleroad
  2. Harkleroads
  3. Harkness
  4. harks
  5. harks back
  6. harkye
  7. harl
  8. Harlacher
  9. Harlachers
  10. Harlan
  11. Harlan County

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