An archaic spelling of 'hey,' an exclamation used to attract attention or express surprise.
An older English spelling variant of 'hey,' reflecting Middle English phonetic spelling practices where final consonant clusters were sometimes marked with extra letters.
Words like 'heygh' remind us that 'silent letters' weren't always silent—that final 'gh' would have been pronounced or at least indicated something about the vowel sound in Middle English.
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