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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A criminal; someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged..
'Ha, ha, Patie lad!' quo Bessie Elliot, a free-spoken Liddesdale hempy, 'there's a wife com'd for ye the night, Patie lad.'
“Ay, ay,” answered Rob, “she's under lawfu' authority now; and full time, for she was a daft hempie[…]”
The forst one's just as prood as us, / Te see his bonny mate, / An' if thor spared te grow up lads, / They'll fettle real forst-rate; / But if like hempy lads they fight, / We'll heh to keep them doon, / An’ try te myek them byeth as gud / As ony in the toon.
Use hempie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hempie means (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A criminal; someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged..
Common synonyms include criminal and Thesaurus:gallows bird, troublemaker, hangworthy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
'Ha, ha, Patie lad!' quo Bessie Elliot, a free-spoken Liddesdale hempy, 'there's a wife com'd for ye the night, Patie lad.'
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