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- noun
Eye dialect spelling ofheathen .
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Examples
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And a rich Irish brogue responded: "Ut's thim black hathen that'll be goin 'over the line in a bunch av I can git widin rache av thim wid me two hands."
The Winning of Barbara Worth Harold Bell Wright 1908
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"What d'yer mane," he cried, "allowing this hathen Saxon to draw yer?"
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880
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Faith, then, and if he were here, I'd buy a bottle of holy water, and sprinkle it over the little hathen.
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We could not help it, 'he exclaimed, ` the baste of a monkey would set off to join his brothers in the bush, and if we had not gone after him they would have made a hathen of him to a certainty.'
The Three Lieutenants William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Last night she ordered us from his room, and declared that her 'precious _bhoy_ was not going to die like a _hathen_, surrounded by a parcel of heretics;' and she sent off a man on horseback for the priest and for his uncle -- the very man from whose house he fled, and whom she accuses of being the cause of her son's death.
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844
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"Don't hathen me, you had betther; but answer my question, you rascally heretic."
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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"Bring us in a quart, Barny," said Dolan to Brady, whom on this occasion we must designate as the host; "and let it be rale hathen."
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Mr. M'Clutchy, another good gintleman, too, and who should attack me on the way but that turncoat hathen Bob Beatty, wid a whole posse of idolathers at his heels.
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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Hickman, sir, was next to a hathen -- made no differ in life between an idolather and a loyal Protestant, but Mr. M'Clutchy, on the other hand, knows how to lean to his own, as he ought to do.
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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“O, Christendom! why there it is again; sure now my dear, and there is niver a christian upon the most desolate island in the continent of America, that is so great a hathen as yourself.”
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