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hey⋅day

1[hey-dey]
–noun
1. the stage or period of greatest vigor, strength, success, etc.; prime: the heyday of the vaudeville stars.
2. Archaic. high spirits.
Also, heydey.


Origin:
1580–90; var. of high day, appar. by confusion with heyday 2
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hey⋅day

2[hey-dey]
–interjection Archaic.
(used as an exclamation of cheerfulness, surprise, wonder, etc.)

Origin:
1520–30; rhyming compound based on hey; r. heyda < G hei da hey there
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hey·day   (hā'dā')   
n.  The period of greatest popularity, success, or power; prime.

[Perhaps alteration of heyda, exclamation of pleasure, probably alteration of Middle English hey, hey.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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heyday 
c.1590, alteration of heyda (1526), exclamation of playfulness or surprise, something like Mod.Eng. hurrah, apparently an extended form of M.E. interjection hey, hei. Modern sense of "stage of greatest vigor" first recorded 1751, which altered the spelling on model of day, with which this word apparently has no etymological connection.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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