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Word: hoigh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Usage:

...visdom of Beneficent Nature has counteracted this seemin' top-heaviness by a balancin' on to the end of his hyber-uncu-lated tail a number of heavy quills, vich balances him quite even-like, and accounts for his peculiar and ondignified 'abit of rockin' hisself to sleep with vone hoigh shut and with t' other hoigh hopen! SCENE NO. 4: Battel of Vaterloo. - In the background you vill notice Napoleon, behind a tree, him a taking precious good care to be out of 'arm's vay, and a lookin' occasionally at the redcoats thro' a small spyglass, occasionally a stampin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENGLISH SHOWMAN. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

...horse, and he shteppin' so hoigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JERRY MAHONEY'S (K. O. S. P.) PATRICK'S DAY. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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