Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An exclamation of surprise or grief: also used as a verb.
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Examples
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"V is like Batman-lite... hech he is more like Punisher-lite"
Archive 2006-05-28 2006
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"V is like Batman-lite... hech he is more like Punisher-lite"
Archive 2006-05-28 2006
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"A princess -- hech, let me get oot o 'this," cried the angry gentleman-farmer, making attempts to reach the door; "I could not touch her, but I'd be feared that I could not keep my tongue off ony o 'that breed."
Patsy 1887
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"Hech! hech! hech!" laughed the old man, sitting down and rubbing his knees.
Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead Allen Raine 1885
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He was never onything remarkable for intellec, and jist took what the minister tellt him for true, an 'keepit the guid o't; for his hert was aye richt, an' his faith a hantle stronger than maybe it had ony richt to be, accordin 'to his ain opingans; but, hech! there's something far better nor his opingans i' the hert o 'ilka
David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864
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Mony ane 'at spak like that, had nae doot a guid meanin' in't; but, hech man! it's an awesome deevilich way o 'sayin' a holy thing.
David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864
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"'Annals o' the Payrish, 'Archie, hech, sirs, he's big eneuch to be the Payrish itself -- let alone the annals o' it."
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"Hech, Mileddy! hech! there's ane come wi 'a letter for your Leddyship, and it's entrusted to my han', Mileddy - to my han '."
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Ah! hech! were it not for Scripture I should have thought that Adam, rather than
Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife Charles Kingsley 1847
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"Nout basquès mey gran hech que non pouchques lheba:"
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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