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Shie vs Hie - What's the difference?

shie | hie |

As verbs the difference between shie and hie

is that shie is (to throw) while hie is (poetic) to hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.

As a noun hie is

haste; diligence.

shie

English

Verb

  • (to throw).
  • * Jeremy Bentham
  • a sort of cock, for him, in childish wantonness, to shie at.
    (Webster 1913)

    hie

    English

    Verb

  • (poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
  • * Dryden
  • The youth, returning to his mistress, hies .
  • (reflexive, poetic) To hurry (oneself).
  • * Shakespeare
  • My husband hies him home.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Haste; diligence.
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