Timeline for Meaning of the expression, "...hey for Saffron Walden"
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| Sep 8, 2016 at 22:16 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2016 at 22:05 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Spagirl: Interesting! I've got the 12th edition in paper, and it's there too. I didn't realise Chambers had free online access, but I just searched, and there it is. I'm in a bit of a quandary now... | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 21:54 | comment | added | Spagirl | Chambers gives 'Now for' and 'Off we go for' as definitions of 'Hey for'. No link as I'm using a phone app Chambers. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 19:14 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Well, if Conan Doyle isn't a match for Shakespeare or Spenser, what hope O'Brian? | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 18:10 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | ...here's another instance, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle no less: Then hey for home, and no more hawking today! Given the status of writers using it, I'm a bit surprised the full OED hasn't seen fit to define the usage. Especially when they sometimes list words that have only ever occurred once (from Shakespeare or Spenser, for example). | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 18:02 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2016 at 18:01 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Andrew Leach: Ah, right! I didn't give it too much thought, but somehow I had the idea he was a fantasy writer. I think I'd better delete that last sentence (and fix the spellings! :) | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 17:57 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Actually O'Brian (not O'Brien, oops: I should have corrected that!) writes about Navy life in the Napoleonic Wars, so it's entirely possible that he does want to sound archaic. | |
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| Sep 8, 2016 at 16:59 | history | answered | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |