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Subject: hempy: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Oct. 3, 2014

hempy \HEM-pee\ adjective 1. Scot. mischievous; often in trouble for mischief. Quotes ...and that there could not be a surer proof of the young hempy being his get, than that he had been a thief... -- John Galt, The Stolen Child, 1833 Origin Hempy comes from the late Middle English word hempi, which meant "made of hemp." This is thought to be a dark joke about one being fit for hanging by a hemp rope, and, by attenuation, mischievous.

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