int. [a lengthened form of HEY; an exclamation to arouse the person addressed.] = Hey! ho!
1705. Vanbrugh, Confederacy, III. i. Where’s this old woman?—A-hey!… nobody at home?
1751. Smollett, Per. Pic., II. lxvi. 225. Ahey!… you herring-fac’d son of a sea-calf.
1815. Hist. J. Decastro, etc. iii. 50. Ahey! how is all this? a blank page!
