halseny

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English

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Etymology

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Originally a dialectal variant of halsen (to predict). While nominal use is mentioned once in 19th century English dialect literature,[1] the modern sense of "prediction, conjecture" probably originates from misinterpretation of the verb in dictionaries.

Verb

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halseny

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of halsen

Noun

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halseny (plural halsenies)

  1. (rare) A prediction; conjecture.
    • 2018, Evolution of Man to Human, page 38:
      As years passed away my halseny prediction's dark shadow forecast over the flourished copper civilization.
    • 2018 Jan-Jun, Naziyah Nabi, “Ecopoetics: The Halseny Of Environmental Literature”, in AGU International Journal of Research in Social Sciences & Humanities, volume 6, page 545:
      (see title)
    • 2020, R Sandberg, Surveillance capitalism in the context of futurology: An inquiry to the implications of surveillance capitalism on the future of humanity:
      the protagonists in the Greek prophesy-dramas never manage to divest themselves of their destinies, and it is more often than not their own precautions that essentially bring the halsenies to fruition

References

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  1. ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “HALSEN, v. and sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: [], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, [], publisher to the English Dialect Society, []; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 36, column 1.

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