heigh-day
See also: heighday
English
Interjection
- Alternative form of heyday.
- 1839, Aristophanes, “The Birds”, in J[ohn] Hookham Frere, transl., The Acharnians and Two Other Plays of Aristophanes, London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., published 1909, page 190:
- Chorus. (to Peisthetairus, in a sort of self-satisfied drawling tone). Heigh-day! Why, what's the matter with ye? Sure! / Ah! well now, I calculate, you're quite astonished; […]