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hettie

/ ˈhɛtɪ /

adjective

  1. heterosexual
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a heterosexual person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hettie1

C20: shortened from heterosexual
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Example Sentences

So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.

That was a new idea to Hettie; and it puzzled her little brain for a minute: then she laughed out, "Shall I be their grandmother?"

Aunt Jennie told our little Hettie that she might have it for her own, if she would take care of it.

Hettie Penning was with them, and everyone present had been sworn to secrecy about her share in the tragedy of the previous night.

Well, I went up street and down street, and then gave my seat to Hettie Keefer.

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