hachee
Middle English edit
Noun edit
hachee
- Alternative form of hache (“sorrow”)
Yola edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Derived from Middle English hak (“unsparing”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
hachee
- cross, ill-tempered
- Synonym: knaggee
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 84:
- Huck nigher; y'art scuddeen; fartoo zo hachee?
- Come nearer; you're rubbing your back; why so ill tempered?
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 44