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Middle English
Etymology
From Old English, meaning "low, mean".
Noun
heyne
- A wretch; a rascal.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1319-1320:
He slyly took it out, this cursed heyne—
Unwiting this preest of his false craft— [...]- He slyly took it out, this cursed rascal—
This priest not knowing of his false craft—