heartlings

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interjection

An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

interjection
  1. obsoleteAn exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance.

    My will! ’od’s heartlings, that’s a pretty jest indeed!

    c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]

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APA

heartlings. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heartlings

MLA

“heartlings.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heartlings. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “heartlings,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heartlings.

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