Hey vs Dey - What's the difference?
hey | dey |
An exclamation to get attention.
A protest or reprimand.
An expression of surprise.
(US, Australia, UK, Canada) An informal greeting, similar to hi.
A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion (see also eh, huh).
A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.
(country dancing) A choreographic figure in which the dancers weave between one another.
The title given to the ruler of the (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 29:
*:the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.
As an interjection hey
is an exclamation to get attention.As a noun hey
is (country dancing) a choreographic figure in which the dancers weave between one another.As a proper noun dey is
the tenth solar month of the persian calendar.hey
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Interjection
(en interjection)- Hey , look at this!
- Hey ! Stop that!
- Hey ! This is new!
- Hey ! How's it going?
- Hey ? How's that?
- The chorus is "nana na na, nana na na hey hey hey, goodbye".