Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To go quickly; hasten.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To hasten; go in haste: often with a reciprocal pronoun.
- To incite to action or haste; instigate; urge: with on.
- n. Haste; speed.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
- v. reflexive To hurry (oneself).
- n. Haste; diligence.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Rare, except in poetry To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.
- n. obsolete Haste; diligence.
WordNet 3.0
- v. move fast
Etymologies
- From Old English hīġian. Cognate with Dutch hijgen ("to pant"), German heichen ("to choke, gasp for breath"), Danish hige ("to aspire, long"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English hien, from Old English hīgian, to strive, exert oneself. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I bet Jim Crow is flipping over in hie miserable grave.”
“I must thank "hie" for putting together such a great music video ..”
“Anyone who thinks ill of that can hie off to Hades.”
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“We hie past looney bushes, succulents and desert annuals, blooming after the rains.”
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“And so tomorrow, with a clean conscience, I shall hie me to see the new Star Trek film, get some housework done, take care of a few urgent chores on Friday, then return with a vengeance Saturday to the Clone Wars #4 rewrite.”
“Then hie thee to the Chinese embassy and ask for a passport application!”
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“How anyone can possibly forget how Humphrey Bogart-soundalike good wizard Avatar manages to overcome hie evil twin brother Blackwolf is beyond me though.”
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“However Dick Chney should keep hie opinion to himself.”
“Interesting that the Beavers 'attendance is so pitiful with their departure so clearly on the horizon ... the so-called bereaved don't seem bereaved enough to hie themselves out to the park to catch one of the last Portland Beavers' games ever.”
“If the individual is leading effectively hie/her TEAM will be making most of these.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hie’.
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Public List: Two by Fives
This is an experiment in public lists--something I've been thinking about for some time. The goal is to create a collection of short, powerful, evocative words.
This is an open list. A...icy, howl, hymn, thorn, fire, vile, mist, blunt, scum, dark, shot, gleam and 221 more...
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briwref's list
defalcation, macerate, beldam, nescience, ochlocracy, bibelot, estivate, spatulated, introversive, mastoidal, belletristic, objurgation and 108 more...
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Manx
Words that are Manx or of Manx origin. This is a language about which I know next to nothing, and therefore make no claims of being correct about anything.
See also the bound-to-remain...coghal, byddage, cronk, qualtagh, tynwald, manx loaghtan, bunscoill ghaelgagh, shassoo, credjue, nealloo, craid, mraane and 202 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 more...
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Perambulatory
let's move
dawdle, hie, lollop, promenade, stroll, amble, mosey, gallivant, waddle, galumph, traipse, galumph and 3 more...
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Thats a word?!
Unusual jumbles of letters that are actually words
asci, lin, avast, presumptuousness, drumble, repudiate, anile, feal, dawt, haver, apery, hoary and 10 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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billy shakespeare's guide to good living
hurlyburly, nave, direful, whence, sooth, dwindle, tempest-tost, withal, selfsame, wrack, unfix, recompense and 142 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
hurlyburly, hurtle, hodgepodge, heartwood, hatch, halo, hooptedoodle, hacienda, hairpin, heyday, hardscrabble, hopper and 208 more...
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Damieng's Words
lupine, sapor, boz imp, imp, ovine, saracen, haberdashery, tiebar, shill, cutler, cutaway, lucite and 218 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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