Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • interjection Used to express fatigue, mild surprise, boredom, disappointment, or sometimes exultation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An exclamation expressing a degree of surprise, astonishment, or exultation, or more usually, as languidly uttered, some weariness, marking conventionally a sigh or a yawn: also sometimes as a verb.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • interjection An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To chant "heigh-ho", a cadence-count used for synchronized walking, marching, pulling, lifting, etc.

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Examples

  • I'm filling in as one of Snow White's dwarves, Nasty; heigh-ho, heigh-ho, be-otch.

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  • Florimel not a name I care for, but heigh-ho is a mad, mad girl.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • I seem to be alone in my lack of patriotism, but heigh-ho.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • They encourage me not to lose my Oxfordshire lilt, country accents being so fashionable now, but I am not sure I could if I tried, so heigh-ho.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • I seem to be alone in my lack of patriotism, but heigh-ho.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • They encourage me not to lose my Oxfordshire lilt, country accents being so fashionable now, but I am not sure I could if I tried, so heigh-ho.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Florimel not a name I care for, but heigh-ho is a mad, mad girl.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • It is like a fairy-tale, I said, tying the last of my laces and checking my face in the mirror—my cheeks were flushed pink, not enough powder, but heigh-ho.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • It is like a fairy-tale, I said, tying the last of my laces and checking my face in the mirror—my cheeks were flushed pink, not enough powder, but heigh-ho.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Louie started singing, Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, its off for food we go.

    Freaked Out Annie Bryant 2009

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