Hella vs Helly - What's the difference?
hella | helly |
(slang, chiefly Northern California) Intensifier, signifies an abundance of a thing; much or many.
(slang, chiefly Northern California) a lot; or, a hell of a lot.
(slang, chiefly Northern California) Intensifier (modifies verbs); to a large extent; totally; very much.
(slang, chiefly Northern California) Intensifier (modifies adjectives); to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly.
(slang, chiefly Northern California) For sure; totally; hell yeah; used as a strong affirmation of something that was just said, accomplished, or revealed.
Hellish, infernal.
* 1603', Samuel Harsnet, ''A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures'', quoted in '''2013 in ''Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times (ISBN 0750952822):
* 1892 , Theodore Sydney Vaughn, Satan in Arms Against Columbus , page 138:
As a proper noun hella
is .As an adjective helly is
hellish, infernal.hella
English
(wikipedia hella)Etymology 1
Related to "a hell of a". Originally slang. Also helluv .Determiner
(en determiner)- There are hella people here.
Synonyms
* madPronoun
(English Pronouns)- We paid hella for that Chinese cuisine.
Adverb
(-)- I can't tell you how much I hella love the new track.
- Jane was driving away, and the door was open, so I hella ran for it.
- Oh, today's Cyrell's bday. We hella sang her happy birthday at the spot.
- I guess she seems hella stoned in her commercial.
- I've been a Star Wars fan since I was hella young.
Synonyms
* wicked (North East US)Interjection
(en interjection)- "We definitely rocked that shit man!" "Hella !"
Quotations
* (English Citations of "hella")Etymology 2
Shortened form, or elision, of phrases like "hell have", approximating casual speech in writing.References
* Waksler, Rachelle (San Francisco State University), "A HELLA New Specifier". [http://ling.ucsc.edu/Jorge/waksler.html] English intensifiers ----helly
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, .
- Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.