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hee-haw [hee-haw 词源字典]: also heehaw, first recorded 1815 (as Hiu Haw), probably imitative of sound of donkey's bray (compare French hinham). As "a loud laugh" from 1843.[hee-haw etymology, hee-haw origin, 英语词源]
heebie-jeebies (n.): 1923, said to have been coined by U.S. cartoonist Billy De Beck (1890-1942), creator of "Barney Google."
heed (v.): Old English hedan "to heed, observe; to take care, attend," from West Germanic *hodjan (cognates: Old Saxon hodian, Old Frisian hoda, Middle Dutch and Dutch hoeden, Old High German huotan, German hüten "to guard, watch"), from PIE *kadh- "to shelter, cover" (see hat). Related: Heeded; heeding.
heed (n.): "attention, notice, regard," early 14c., apparently from heed (v.). Survives only in literal use and as the object of verbs (take heed, etc.).
heedful (adj.): 1540s, from heed + -ful.
heedless (adj.): "without regard," 1570s, from heed + -less. Related: Heedlessly; heedlessness.
heel (n.1): "back of the foot," Old English hela, from Proto-Germanic *hanhilon (cognates: Old Norse hæll, Old Frisian hel, Dutch hiel), from PIE *kenk- (3) "heel, bend of the knee" (source also of Old English hoh "hock").

Meaning "back of a shoe or boot" is c. 1400. Down at heels (1732) refers to heels of boots or shoes worn down and the owner too poor to replace them. For Achilles' heel "only vulnerable spot" see Achilles. To "fight with (one's) heels" (fighten with heles) in Middle English meant "to run away."
heel (v.2): "to lean to one side," in reference to a ship, Old English hieldan "incline, lean, slope," from Proto-Germanic *helthijan (cognates: Middle Dutch helden "to lean," Dutch hellen, Old Norse hallr "inclined," Old High German halda, German halde "slope, declivity"). Re-spelled 16c. from Middle English hield, probably by misinterpretation of -d as a past tense suffix.
heel (n.2): "contemptible person," 1914 in U.S. underworld slang, originally "incompetent or worthless criminal," perhaps from a sense of "person in the lowest position" and thus from heel (n.1).
heel (v.1): of a dog, "to follow or stop at a person's heels," 1810, from heel (n.1). Also see heeled.
heel-tap (n.): also heeltap, 1680s, "one of the bits of leather that are stacked up to make a shoe heel" (see heel (n.1)); meaning "bit of liquor left in a glass or bottle" first recorded 1780s; the exact connection is uncertain unless it be "the last or final part."
heeled (adj.): "provided with money," 1880, American English Western slang, from earlier sense "furnished with a gun, armed" (1866), perhaps from still earlier sense "furnish (a gamecock) with a heel-like spur" (1560s), which was still in use 19c.; see heel (n.1).
heeler (n.): 1660s, "one who puts heels on shoes and boots," agent noun from heel (n.1). Meaning "unscrupulous political lackey," U.S. slang, 1877, from the notion of one who follows at the heels of a political boss, no doubt coined with the image of a dog in mind. See heel (v.1).
heft (v.): "to lift," 1660s, from heft (n.). Related: Hefted; hefting.
heft (n.): mid-15c., "weight, heaviness, quality of weight," from heave on analogy of thieve/theft, weave/weft, etc.; also influenced by heft, obsolete past participle of heave.
hefty (adj.): 1867, from heft + -y (2). Related: Heftiness.
Hegelian (adj.): 1838, pertaining to German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). As a noun from 1843.
hegemon (n.): 1904, originally with reference to the United States, from Greek hegemon "leader" (see hegemony).
hegemonic (adj.): 1650s, from Latinized form of Greek hegemonikos "related to a leader, capable of command," from hegemon (see hegemony). Earlier in same sense was hegemonical (1610s).
hegemonism (n.): 1965, in reference to a policy of political domination, on model of imperialism; see hegemony + -ism.