Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīwa ("member of a family"), from Proto-Germanic *hīwô (“relative, fellow-lodger, family”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie with, store, be familiar”). More at hind. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But: a story like that you could tell with images rather than a complete explanation of the plot … hewe on Apr 22, 2008”
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“February 12, 2008 at 12:37 pm i iz new hewe, sumwon hewp me wern to speke in youw wanguage?”
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“And then go a step further to argue them? hewe,this here family is competing to see who will loose it first,Minega u r currently winning the race...”
“Thei hewe or choppe no maner of thing by the fire, leasse by any maner of meanes, thei might fortune to hurte the thing which alway they haue in reuerence, and iudge to be the clenser, and purifier of al thinges.”
“Thei are all by nature blacke of hewe: euen so died in their mothers wombe acordyng to the disposicion of the fathers nature, whose siede also is blacke: as like wise in the”
“And albeit the king of Spaine be the richest prince in Christendome, yet can he neither draw cables, hewe masts, nor make pouder out of his mettals, but is to be supplied of them all from thence.”
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“One is to thrust a knife into the fire, or any way to touch the fire with a knife, or with their knife to take flesh out of the cauldron, or to hewe with an hatchet neare vnto the fire.”
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“And schewi hweþer vnker beo. of briht {er} hewe. of fayrur bleo.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
“Reynolde beriston, Sire william tracy, Sire Richard breton, and sire hewe morley.”
“Take Hennes [2] oþer Conynges [3] oþer Veel oþer oþer Flessh an hewe hem to gobettes waische it and hit well [4]. grynde Almandes unblaunched. and drawe hem up with þe broth cast þer inne raysons of”
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hewe’.
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Bébé to Zeze
A more narrow version of *e?e by pterodactyl, this one is ?e?e.
nese, were, rete, tele, sene, deme, dere, meme, rese, here, jefe, rede and 131 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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At Your Service
Servants who are traditionally male. Inspired by hernesheir's maids list (as well as Downton Abbey)
footman, chasseur, hurkaru, chobdar, lackey, jeames, manservant, pantryman, groom, palefrenier, coistrel, ostler and 106 more...
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