heigh
/heɪ/
heigh interjection: an exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc.
Interjection
- An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc.
- Heigh, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
- [T]he farmer and his family were following the last loads of furniture, when a neighbour named John Marshall came up - "Well, Georgey," said he, "and soa you're leaving t'ould hoose at last?" - "Heigh, Johnny, my lad, I'm forced tull it; for that damned Boggart torments us soa, we can neither rest...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 307
Forms of heigh
| alternative form | hey |
|---|---|
| alternative form | hi |
| alternative Scotland | hegh |
| alternative Scotland | hech |
Origin of heigh
Inherited from Middle English heigh, hey, hay, hei, heh, probably of imitative origin. Compare hey, eh.
Words formed from heigh
Words that rhyme with heigh
Questions about heigh
- What does heigh mean?
- Heigh means an exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc.
- What part of speech is heigh?
- Heigh is an interjection.
- How do you pronounce heigh?
- Heigh is pronounced /heɪ/.
Words near heigh in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heigh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “heigh.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/heigh. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.