heil
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos
Proto-Germanic *hailaz
Proto-West Germanic *hail
Old High German heil
Middle High German heil
German Heilbor.
English heil
Borrowed from German Heil, from Middle High German heil, from Old High German heil, from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos. Doublet of whole, hail, and hale.
Inflected forms:
form: heils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: heiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: heiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: heiled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: heils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To greet with a Sieg Heil.
pos: verb
examples: John Smith: Our deal stands. / Wilhelm Goertzmann: North America is yours. / John Smith: And the rest of the Reich is yours. / Wilhelm Goertzmann: You have complete autonomy. / John Smith: Heil Goertzmann! (performs Nazi salute) / Wilhelm Goertzmann: Heil Smith! (performs Nazi salute)
gloss: A Sieg Heil.
pos: noun
examples: Nazi “heils,” Nazi songs and Nazi swastikas are distasteful to most democracy-loving citizens.
Health, Hitler, heils, and hatred are the “four H’s” used by United States Nazis to prevent Americanization of children whose parents are members of the German-American Bund.
Newsdealer Isador Gennett, the Bronx Jewish war veteran who created an international stir last October by laying a wreath at the German war memorial in Berlin to the accompaniment of Nazi “heils,” came to the defense of a fellow newsdealer, Joseph Ohmann, a German Catholic, by picketing his newsstand to prove he is not, as has been charged, a Nazi.
“Meanwhile,” said the Evening News, “the new German-Soviet entente presents a baffling picture. We see Herr Ribbentrop, the arch enemy of Communism and the life and soul of the Anti-Comintern Pact, who once referred to Communism as ‘the most terrible of all diseases,’ presenting himself on the doorstep of a be-swastika’d Moscow while the German Embassy staff greets him with ‘heils’ and Nazi salutes and the Russian-in-the-street looks on in silent but respectful astonishment.[…]”
[…] who simply walked out of the camp dressed as German guards, duplicating Nazi heils, the goosestep and other mannerisms.
Later I drove to the meeting and talked for two hours. Tremendous applause. Then heils and hand-clapping.
While frantic “heils” burst forth […]
Occasionally, however, the results are somewhat questionable: the four-minute overture-⁠-comprised of slowly rising Nazi "heils"-⁠-which precedes the credits, for example, seems little more than an irritating delay; it is usually deleted when the film is shown on television.
When they were finished, they raised their arms in the salute Hider stole from Mussolini, and thundered their heils to the heavens.
By now, the SS, Storm Section, Hitler Youth and Nazi suspects were like the crowd at a Hitler rally. Their mouths were a row of red circles, as open as megaphone ends. To look at, the men could be singing, marching, stomping over the flopping remains of Shlomo’s father, mother, brothers, giving their heils, and Shlomo now hated them.
Three days later, in the Mailbag of May 14, Pauline Avery Crawford made her decision: / Sing a song of sick pacts, / A pocket full of lies, / War and twenty blackmails / Baked by the spies; / When the war was opened / The spies began their heils / Until a Yankee Eagle flew / Across three thousand miles.
He wasn’t a boy, a feckless common soldier, he was a wolf. Hitler’s werewolves, the colonel called them, and they saluted with their heils and expected victory.
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