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
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
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
The parrot burst into a song: Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s home from work we go!
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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