Meaning of heppen | Babel Free

Definitions

Neat, fit, or comfortable.

Yorkshire, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Brid. Thou says vara reight, poor as weer, we sud be far warse wor he to come⟳; for he wad, naa doubt⟳, mack a sad derse amang us; Joan an me ha’ not michto crack on, bud we can mack shift to live⟳ ina gradely, menceful, heppen way, an I wad be waa to soap it for awt’ French freedom they make⟳ sike frap about.”

“Wee give⟳ usually to a spaught for holdinge of the oxe plough fower nobles or perhapps 30s. per annum, if hee bee such an one as have⟳ beene trained and beene brought up att the plough, and bee a wigger and heppen youth for loadinge of a waine, and goinge with a draught.”

“’Cawse Bessy, his wife, thof i’ nowt bud print⟳ goons, Was heppenest woman you'd finnd i’ ten toons;”

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