hempie

English

Alternative forms

• hemp, hempy

Etymology

From hemp +‎ -ie.

Noun

hempie (plural hempies)

1. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A criminal; someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.
2. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A rogue.
   • 1846, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Borderer's Table Book‎^[1], volume 7, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Printed for the author, page 137:

     'Ha, ha, Patie lad!' quo Bessie Elliot, a free-spoken Liddesdale hempy, 'there's a wife com'd for ye the night, Patie lad.'

3. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A wild, romping girl.
   • 1817, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy:

     “Ay, ay,” answered Rob, “she's under lawfu' authority now; and full time, for she was a daft hempie […] ”

Synonyms

• (criminal): See Thesaurus:criminal and Thesaurus:gallows bird
• (rogue): See Thesaurus:troublemaker

Adjective

hempie (comparative more hempie, superlative most hempie)

1. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) Deserving of being hanged.
2. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) Wild; riotous; mischievous.
   • 1890, Joseph Wilson, “Wor Canny Second-Born!”, in Tyneside Songs and Drolleries‎^[2], page 255:

     The forst one's just as prood as us, / Te see his bonny mate, / An' if thor spared te grow up lads, / They'll fettle real forst-rate; / But if like hempy lads they fight, / We'll heh to keep them doon, / An’ try te myek them byeth as gud / As ony in the toon.

Synonyms

• (Deserving of being hanged): Thesaurus:hangworthy

References

• Wright, Joseph (1903) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[3], volume 4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 139–140

Anagrams

• Phemie, imphee

Afrikaans

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Noun

hempie (plural hempies)

1. Diminutive of hemp

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɛm.pi/

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Noun

hempie n (plural hempies)

1. (informal, Holland) Alternative form of hemdje

Scots

Alternative forms

• hempy, himpie

Etymology

From hemp +‎ -ie.

Noun

hempie (plural hempies)

1. (often humorous) Someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.
   • 1720, Allan Ramsay, “Christ's Kirk on the Green”, in Poems, canto 3, page 117:

     A Gilpy that had ſeen the Faught, / I wat he was nae lang, / Till he had gather'd ſeven or aught / Wild Hempies ſtout and ſtrang;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Adjective

hempie (comparative mair hempie, superlative maist hempie)

1. Roguish; wild.
   • 1739, John Skinner, “The Monymusk Christmas Ba'ing”, in Caledonian Magazine, or Aberdeen Repository; reprinted in Songs and Poems, by the Rev. John Skinner‎^[4], Peterhead: William L. Taylor, 1859, page 6:

     Tho' Rob was stout, his cousin dang / Him down wi' a gryte shudder; / Syne a' the drochlin hempy thrang / Gat o'er him wi' a fudder.

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References

• “hempie” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.