Heed vs Heeb - What's the difference?
heed | heeb |
Careful attention.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
* Dryden
* 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "
(archaic) To pay attention, care.
(slang, US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Jew.
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 49:
As nouns the difference between heed and heeb
is that heed is heathen, pagan or heed can be heath while heeb is (slang|us|derogatory|ethnic slur) a jew.heed
English
Noun
(-)- Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.
Usage notes
* Often used with give, pay or take.Synonyms
* (careful attention) attention, notice, observation, regardVerb
(en verb)- With pleasure Argus the musician heeds .
Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
heeb
English
Alternative forms
* hebe * Hebe * HeebNoun
(en noun)- Most of the famous and up-and-coming performers of the day [...] were heebs , and the boys had the feeling that we should all stick together and not knock the big names of "our" race.