hed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.
adj
Acronym of howardite, eucrite, diogenite (“pertaining to howarditic/eucritic/diogenitic material”).
Example Sentences
- "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.[…]”"
- "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."
- "‘An’ th’ dumblasted rascal hed to go an’ git gay wi’ June. Dick turned to an’ hammered seven hells out o’ his mug an’ hove him out on deck—’"
- "They finally hed my warnings!"
Etymology
Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in a journalistic story. Compare lede (“lead, introduction”). Also an archaic spelling.