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hey | wey |

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 wey is

an english river which flows through guildford, and is a tributary of the thames.

hey

English

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l)

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • An exclamation to get attention.
    • Hey , look at this!
  • A protest or reprimand.
    • Hey ! Stop that!
  • An expression of surprise.
    • Hey ! This is new!
  • (US, Australia, UK, Canada) An informal greeting, similar to hi.
    • Hey ! How's it going?
  • A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion (see also eh, huh).
    • Hey ? How's that?
  • A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.
    • The chorus is "nana na na, nana na na hey hey hey, goodbye".

    Related terms

    * heyday * what the hey * hey up

    See also

    * huh * hay is for horses * (wikipedia "hey")

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (country dancing) A choreographic figure in which the dancers weave between one another.

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    wey

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
  • * c. 1376 , William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman , Version B, Passus 5, Line 91:
    • Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.
  • * 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202:
    • Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 208:
    • Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.
  • * (rfdate): A wey is 6 tods, or 182 pounds, of wool; a load, or five quarters, of wheat, 40 bushels of salt, each weighing 56 pounds; 32 cloves of cheese, each weighing seven pounds; 48 bushels of oats and barley; and from two cwt. to three cwt. of butter. — Simmonds.

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