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Etymology 1
Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in a journalistic story. Compare lede (“lead, introduction”). Also an archaic spelling.
Noun
hed (plural heds)
- (journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.
- Archaic spelling of head.
Related terms
- K-hed
- unhed
Etymology 2
Altered spelling of had.
Verb
hed
- (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.
- 1891 February, a Son of the Marshes [pseudonym; Denham Jordan], “On Surrey Hills.—II. Fin and Fur.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXLIX, number DCCCCIV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 275, column 2:
- He told me he had got a queer critter that had come to his garden, and to his mind it was very like a little pig—in fact, “fust off he reckoned it was one o’ his young snorkers hed got out. […]”
- 1894 February, Ella Beecher Gittings, “A Case of Heredity”, in Overland Monthly, volume XXIII, number 134, San Francisco, Calif.: Overland Monthly Publishing Company […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 133, column 1:
- It hed seven rooms and he ruffed it all over, sides an’ all. / [“Roofed the sides?”] / Thet’s what,—kivered the hull biz with shingles clean down to the ground—an’, Jimminy Crickets! the number o’ little balc’nys, an’ gables, an’ dormant winders, an’ porches thet stuck all over it, was a caution to see.
Etymology 3
See heed.
Verb
hed
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Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish het, from Old Norse heitr.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hed (neuter hedt, plural and definite singular attributive hede)
- hot, scorching, boiling (regarding tempature)
- erotic, arousing, titillating
- (uncommon) in demand (something hot/in a the moment)
- Synonym: varm
Inflection
1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
Verb
hed
- imperative of hedde
- past of hedde
References
- “hed” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “hed” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Manx
Verb
hed
Middle English
Noun
hed
- alternative form of heed
North Frisian
Verb
hed
- inflection of haa:
Old Irish
Pronoun
hed
- alternative spelling of ed
Quotations
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6c9
- Ní hed not·beir i nem, cía ba loingthech.
- It is not this that brings you sg into heaven, that you may be gluttonous.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9a22
- Is hed no·molfar.
- It is [this] that I shall praise.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21a8
- Is hed inso no·guidimm.
- This is what I pray.
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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish heþ, from Old Norse heiðr, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt-.
Noun
hed c
- A moor; an extensive waste land.
Declension
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