Meanings
interjection
- obsoleteListen! Pay attention!
Harkye, friend: I have heard a sort of little song sung about the glass shoe, and it is not for a parcel of dirt that it will go out of my hands.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 316
Origin
From the phrase hark (“listen”) + ye (“you”).
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