Heppen

Quick meaning: Heppen is an adjective meaning (obsolete, Yorkshire, southwest Lincolnshire) Neat, fit, or comfortable.

Meaning

(obsolete, Yorkshire, southwest Lincolnshire) Neat, fit, or comfortable.

Example Sentences

’Cawse Bessy, his wife, thof i’ nowt bud print goons, Was heppenest woman you'd finnd i’ ten toons;

Wee give usually to a spaught for holdinge of the oxe plough fower nobles or perhapps 30s. per annum, if hee bee such an one as have beene trained and beene brought up att the plough, and bee a wigger and heppen youth for loadinge of a waine, and goinge with a draught.

Brid. Thou says vara reight, poor as weer, we sud be far warse wor he to come; for he wad, naa doubt, mack a sad derse amang us; Joan an me ha’ not michto crack on, bud we can mack shift to live ina gradely, menceful, heppen way, an I wad be waa to soap it for awt’ French freedom they make sike frap about.

Word Forms

• heppener
• heppenest

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include homeful, hempen, hail, heedy, hesychastic, hendy.

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