hez

See also: hêz and -hez

English

Verb

hez

1. Pronunciation spelling of has.
   • 1896, Bret Harte, In a Hollow of the Hills‎^[1]:

     He's here with some of his folks az hez got inter trouble--I'm forgettin' to tell ye.

   • 1904, Harold Steele Mackaye, The Panchronicon‎^[2]:

     "Well, then, you c'n explain it to them as hez ben to high school, an' that's sister Phoebe.

   • 1911, Eugene Field, Second Book of Tales‎^[3]:

     Jim was visibly excited; he let go the telephone, and, turning around, full over against us, he said, "By ----, boys! the stage hez been robbed!"

Anagrams

• ezh, zhe

Ladin

Etymology

From Bavarian Hetz

Noun

hez f (uncountable)

1. (Gherdëina, Badiot) fun

   L ie na hez a vester cun ël.

   It's a lot of fun being with him.

   L on fat per na hez.

   We did it for fun.

Synonyms

• matada (Gherdëina, Badiot)

Maonan

Pronoun

hez

1. I

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin faex, faecem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈeθ/ [ˈeθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈes/ [ˈes]
• Rhymes: -eθ
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: hez
• Homophone: (Latin America) es

Noun

hez f (plural heces)

1. dregs, sediment

   Synonyms: residuo, sedimento

2. (derogatory) scum

   Synonym: escoria

3. (in the plural) excrement, dung

   Synonyms: caca, cagada, deshecho, deyección, excremento, materia fecal, mierda, popó

   • 2022 November 10, María Teresa Paramio, “¿Es nueva la producción de alimentos en macrogranjas?”, in El País‎^[4]:

     El amoniaco procede de las heces y la orina de los animales; el CO₂ de su respiración y el metano lo expulsan los rumiantes por la boca, no por las ventosidades, como se dice frecuentemente, debido a la fermentación de los alimentos en su rumen, que es una de las partes del aparato digestivo de los rumiantes.

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Derived terms

• heces de vino

 

See also

• estiércol m

Further reading

• “hez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28