hiney
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]hiney (plural hineys)
- Alternative spelling of heinie
- 1939, Barry Benefield, April was when it began, Reynal & Hitchcock, page 34:
- I've sat out there so much my hiney's sore.
Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]hiney (plural hineys)
- honey
- 1773, Robert Fergusson, Ode to the Bee[1]:
- The hiney's still as sweet that flows
Frae thristle cauld, or kendlin rose.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1800, Robert Burns, My Tocher's the Jewel[2]:
- It's a' for the hiney he'll cherish the bee
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1876, Henry Syme, When I was a Lassie:
- The wee hummin' bees are aye blythe makin' hiney
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)