Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An interjectional expression used by jugglers during the performance of their feats, and equivalent to “Presto, change!”
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Examples
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Who seizeth on it, doth neither gulch up nor swill down, but takes away what hath been packed up, catcheth, snatcheth, and plies the play of hey-pass, repass.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Who seizeth on it, doth neither gulch up nor swill down, but takes away what hath been packed up, catcheth, snatcheth, and plies the play of hey-pass, repass.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Ha '[225] you forgotten me? you think to carry it away with your hey-pass and re-pass: do you remember the dog's fa ----
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 Christopher Marlowe 1578
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Who seizeth on it, doth neither gulch up nor swill down, but takes away what hath been packed up, catcheth, snatcheth, and plies the play of hey-pass, repass.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
qms commented on the word hey-pass
Could the selection of hey-pass as the Word of the Day be a sly allusion to the tax-filing deadline?
No unseemly glee, if you please;
But show you think taxes a breeze.
A “hey-pass,” say,
Would be déclassé.
A gent does such juggling with ease.
April 15, 2015