heppen

comparative heppener · comparative more heppen · superlative heppenest · superlative most heppen

1. Yorkshireobsoletesouthwest LincolnshireNeat, fit, or comfortable.First known use 17th–19th c.

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

   1889, Geo. Lancaster, “Riding the Stang”, in John Nicholson, editor, The Folk Speech of East Yorkshire, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Company, page 38

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   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.

   1824, William Carr, “Dialogue I”, in Horæ Momenta Cravenæ, or The Craven Dialect, […], London: Hurst, Robinson and Co. Cheapside, page 24

   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.

   1857, Henry Best, “For Hyringe of Servantes”, in Charles Best Robinson, editor, Rural Economy in Yorkshire, in 1641, […], Durham: George Andrews, page 133