heigh-ho
Americaninterjection
interjection
Etymology
Origin of heigh-ho
First recorded in 1545–55
Example Sentences
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Ready to grab your moon pick, pull on your moon boots and heigh-ho your way into a moon mine?
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2012
British Tommies reworded the work carol of the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and, as they moved toward their posts in the Maginot Line last week, sang: "Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to war we go."
From Time Magazine Archive
Compared with the heigh-ho, collegiate approach of Vallee, today's crooner is a suave, smoky-eyed predator.
From Time Magazine Archive
In scenes brimming with heigh-ho, Debbie and the tots, who are really the abandoned children of a migrant tobacco picker, go about housekeeping chores with more madness than method.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Wish I could watch the Lakers’ greatest point guard of all time humiliate himself on a cable infomercial station, but somebody has to pay the bills around here, so heigh-ho!
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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