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▪ I. ‖ heller1|ˈhɛlər|
Also 6–7 haller.
[Ger. heller, in MHG. häller, haller, ‘usually assumed to be named from the imperial city Schwäbisch-Hall, where it was first coined’ (Kluge).]
A small coin formerly current in Germany, worth half a pfennig; also a coin = 1/100 of a crown (1/10 of a penny) issued in Austria between 1893 and 1916.
1575Brieff Disc. Troubl. Franckford (1642) 134 The summe which they gave growed to so much as thirteene, not Sallers but Hallers or Pennings. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 287 (Stanf.) At Nurnberg..two haller make one pfenning. 1842Motley Corr. (1889) I. iv. 102 The sister gave two hellers a day to the workmen. 1895Baedeker's Eastern Alps Introd. 11 The new Austrian monetary unit is the Crown (Krone) = 100 Heller. These new coins, however, are still comparatively rare.
▪ II. heller2 U.S. slang.|ˈhɛlə(r)|
[f. hell v.2 + -er1.]
One who ‘hells around’.
1895W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 67 Heller, a remarkable person. ‘He is a heller at foot-ball.’ 1933Amer. Speech VIII. i. 81/2 Heller, one who is unusually daring or aggressive, intensified usually as a regular heller. 1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath viii. 107 Tom grinned affectionately at him. ‘Ain't he a heller?’ he said. 1959Listener 17 Dec. 1086/1 Jack Harrick, the old hillbilly satyr or ‘heller’. |