hegge

See also: Hegge and heggé

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English heċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

Alternative forms

• egge, eygge, heddge, hedge, heg, hege, hegg, heggg

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛd͡ʒ(ə)/

Noun

hegge (plural hegges)

1. A hedge; a plant grown as a boundary.
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 4405-4408:

     A col-fox, ful of sly iniquitee,
     That in the grove hadde woned yeres three,
     By heigh imaginacioun forn-cast,
     The same night thurgh-out the hegges brast [...]

     A fox, full of sly iniquity,
     That in the grove had dwelled three years,
     By exalted imagination predestined,
     The same night through the hedges broke [...]

2. A bush or shrub; a stout or short woody plant.
3. (rare) An enclosure; a fenced-off or bounded area.
4. (rare) A fortress; a redoubt.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Derived terms

• heggen
• heggynge

Descendants

• English: hedge
• Scots: hedge

References

• “heǧǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-24.

Etymology 2

Verb

hegge

1. Alternative form of heggen

Swedish

Alternative forms

• hägge

Etymology

From hekto (“hectogram”).

Noun

hegge n

1. (slang) a hectogram (usually of cannabis)

   Synonym: hekto

Declension

Declension of hegge

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hegge	hegges
	definite	hegget	heggets
plural	indefinite	heggen	heggens
	definite	heggena	heggenas

See also

• kasse

References

• Slangopedia