Definitions for heigh-ho

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Spelling: [hahy-hoh, hey-]
IPA: /ˈhaɪˈhoʊ, ˈheɪ-/

Heigh-Ho is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in heigh-ho (-eghhhio).

Definitions for heigh-ho

interjection

  1. (an exclamation of surprise, exultation, melancholy, boredom, or weariness.)

Origin of heigh-ho

First recorded in 1545-55

Examples for heigh-ho

Here is a whole cargo of silks and laces just sent in to me—heigh-ho!

heigh-ho, thought I, time is flying, and I have yet to look for work.

The words sound as though they would go best with a hunting-tune, a sort of “heigh-ho, tantivy!”

She answered nothing for a moment; then she drew near to him and stood before him, regarding his face; and she sighed "heigh-ho!"

Well, you are very young, and I want to keep you still a boy; but, heigh-ho!

He rode to prove his prowess / in many a land around: heigh-ho!

I could not sleep, for she was always yawning, and then saying, "heigh-ho!"

heigh-ho for hard work, and lodgings at fifteen shillings a week!

heigh-ho, it makes me sigh to think there are so few children in 1853.

heigh-ho, what a slipshod world this would be if there were nobody but women in it!

Word Value for heigh-ho
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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