Everywhere I go, ‘hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’
hey, whatever keeps those lecherous freaks from sexually assaulting humans is fine by us.
Then, last year, she received a call from Anderson: “hey, do you remember when we met over ten years ago?”
But hey, maybe anti-regime posters wrote those, this being one place where it is open to being cyber-slimed.
On the one hand, these results say: hey, there is real support for Democrats in the South.
hey, Scottie, shake up the fire and put on some coffee, will you?
The night now was very dark, "with hey, ho, the wind and the rain!"
It used to be "Rose," but now it was always "say" or "you" or "hey."
That's why he was so hot about picking a fight on the boat, hey?
What do you suppose one-legged men're going to do in the resurrection, hey, Abe?
c.1200, variously, in Middle English, hei, hai, ai, he, heh, expressing challenge, rebuttal, anger, derision, sorrow, or concern; also a shout of encouragement to hunting dogs. Possibly a natural expression (cf. Roman eho, Greek eia, German hei).
Þa onswerede þe an swiðe prudeliche, `Hei! hwuch wis read of se icudd keiser!' ["St. Katherine of Alexandria," c.1200]In Latin, hei was a cry of grief or fear; but heia, eia was an interjection denoting joy.
interjection
An exclamation used to underscore mildly what is said: Pennzoil has been arguing that, hey, they are reasonable people/ I tried explaining that, hey, basically a goose is just a big duck/ Hey, I'm only human
[1980s+; the use is attenuated from the ancient call for attention found by 1225]
