| \HEM-pee\ | adjective
1. Scot. mischievous; often in trouble for mischief. | | Quotes | ...and that there could not be a surer proof of the young hempy being his get, than that he had been a thief...
-- John Galt, The Stolen Child, 1833 | | Origin | | Hempy comes from the late Middle English word hempi, which meant "made of hemp." This is thought to be a dark joke about one being fit for hanging by a hemp rope, and, by attenuation, mischievous. | |
