Origin and history of he-he

thus he is eligible to be relieved from duty....All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions....Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them....If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to....

[OED] A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; ... if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for...it is only when he is alone that he is really free....

Standing on the ledge he could see trees far away, which were doubtless the Kensington Gardens, and the moment he saw them...he entirely forgot that he was now a little boy in a nightgown, and away he flew, right over the houses to the Gardens....It is wonderful that he could fly without wings, but the place itched tremendously, and, perhaps we could all fly if we were...

Suddenly he experienced a new shudder of terror, as he remembered an article which he had inserted in the Belfast Review,...and in which he had himself declared that crocodiles climb trees like cats....He would gladly have thrown this article into the fire, but it was too late, all Belfast had read it, it had been translated...

Surprise a person of the class that is supposed to keep servants cleaning his own boots, & either he will go on with...the job while he talks to you, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, or else he will explain that the bootboy...or scullery-maid is ill & give you to understand that he is, despite appearances, superior to boot-cleaning....If he takes the second course, you conclude that he is not superior to it; if the first, that perhaps he is. [Fowler]...

Pray, Sir, said he to the Bard, after thrusting his Tongue into a Corner of his Cheek, and rolling his Eyes at Miss Willis..., (Tricks which he had caught by endeavouring to take off a celebrated Comedian) were these fine Tragedies of yours ever...—At the same time, he thrust his tongue in one cheek, and leered with one eye at the doctor and me, who sat on his left hand—He...concluded the pantomime with a loud laugh, which he could command at all times extempore....

collective name of the five Old Testament books appointed to be read on certain feast days, from Hebrew meghillah, from galal "he..."What do I care for the Goyim," he said, but Isaac was different....He would talk thee a Megillah about Equality and Brotherhood,—one would have thought, he was reading something aloud out...of the newspaper,—and what he meant was that the Yüd and the Goy were now alike....

"fantastical, odd, grotesque," 1640s, from French bizarre "odd, fantastic" (16c.), from Italian bizarro "irascible, tending to quick flashes of anger" (13c.), from bizza "fit of anger, quick flash of anger" (13c.). The sense in Italian evolved to "unpredictable, eccentric," then

1683, a name applied disparagingly by Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam (New York) to English colonists in neighboring Connecticut. It may be from Dutch Janke, literally "Little John," diminutive of common personal name Jan; or it may be from Jan Kes familiar form of "John Corneliu

late 14c., "pertaining to, of the nature of, or proceeding from God or a god; addressed to God," from Old French divin, devin (12c.), from Latin divinus "of a god," from divus "of or belonging to a god, inspired, prophetic," related to deus "god, deity" (from PIE root *dyeu- "to