Word definition: heavy

Etimology

From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”).

adjective

Examples

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.

The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.

Sent hither by my Husband to impart the heavy news.

This film is heavy.

The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.

The ovarian response to gonadotropic hormones may be erratic at first, so that irregular or heavy bleeding sometimes occurs

Come heavy, or not at all.

Metal is heavier than rock.

He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.

He was described in the theatrical prints as the “veteran Blenkinsop”—“the useful Blenkinsop”—“that old favourite of the public, Blenkinsop”—those parts in the drama, which are called the heavy fathers, were usually assigned to this veteran, who, indeed, acted the heavy father in public, as in private life.

Watch for the signs of fatigue, including yawning, blinking and heavy eyes.

Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.

The surf was not heavy, and there was no undertow, so we made shore easily, effecting an equally easy landing.

[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

it was a heavy storm;  a heavy slumber in bed;  a heavy punch

his eyes were heavy with sleep;  she was heavy with child

The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

Seating himselfe within a darkesome cave, / / Where yet the gladsome day was never seene […]

a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.

a heavy writer or book

whilst the heavy ploughman snores

a heavy, dull, degenerate mind

Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.

The next day we only made some eight miles, as the road was heavy beyond all belief. It lay through a desert region of country which was ancle-deep [sic] in soda and alkali dust.

a heavy road; a heavy soil

heavy bread

The very low prices of brandy, and the continuance of a heavy market for such a length of time, have begun to attract buyers; […]

The oil market is heavy, each day bringing along further supplies of shares from people who have not tired of the long-continued decline in the market.

In a firm voice he said, “World Wide Six heavy is ready for takeoff.”

Related words

adverb

Examples

heavy laden with their sins

Olive: What was it - booze? Barney: Yeh. Been hitting it pretty heavy.

noun

Examples

With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.

A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.

The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1.

Reviewers in the heavies aim to impress with the depth of their knowledge and appreciation.

I read five heavies, maybe transports or tankers...could be bombers.

A 76 Squadron pilot who later completed a second tour on Mosquitoes said that his colleagues on the light bombers “simply could never understand how awful being on heavies was.”

Payton boasted his range included "leading parts or genteel heavies, character old men, dialect parts, old women and, on occasion, soubrettes and leading ladies"; however, he was most at ease in light comedy roles.

Cavalry […] is divided into mediums, heavies, and light cavalry. The mediums consist of 13 regiments; the heavies of 2 regiments; and the light of 13.

verb

Examples

They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load.

The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.

[…] the Prime Minister sought to evade the simple fact that he heavied Mr Reid to get rid of Dr Armstrong.

But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone′s tapped. Well, he won′t find anything.

But the next two days of the Conference also produced some very visible lobbying for the succession and apparent heavying of contenders like Brereton, Anderson and Mulock - much of it caught on television.

Etimology

heave +‎ -y

adjective

Examples

a heavy horse