heppen

Adjective

heppen (comparative heppener or more heppen, superlative heppenest or most heppen)

1. (Yorkshire, obsolete, southwest Lincolnshire) Neat, fit, or comfortable.
   • Brid. Thou says vara reight, poor as weer, we sud be far warse wor he to come; for he wad, naa doubt, mack a sad derse amang us; Joan an me ha’ not michto crack on, bud we can mack shift to live ina gradely, menceful, heppen way, an I wad be waa to soap it for awt’ French freedom they make sike...1824, William Carr, “Dialogue I”, in Horæ Momenta Cravenæ, or The Craven Dialect, […], London: Hurst, Robinson and Co. Cheapside, page 24
   • Wee give usually to a spaught for holdinge of the oxe plough fower nobles or perhapps 30s. per annum, if hee bee such an one as have beene trained and beene brought up att the plough, and bee a wigger and heppen youth for loadinge of a waine, and goinge with a draught.1857, Henry Best, “For Hyringe of Servantes”, in Charles Best Robinson, editor, Rural Economy in Yorkshire, in 1641, […], Durham: George Andrews, page 133