Heaning

Having a quality that provokes irritation and distaste. Also used as a verb denoting anything that will have the same effect. Originally from Heaning Mislet.

What was it like at the Post Office? Absolutely heaning, I had to queue for 30 minutes.

by bodhisattvan September 16, 2009

Heaning Mislet

The names of two neighbouring hamlets in Cumbria, the roadsign for which reads like a direction sign for a particularly annoying person (a mislet) who is described as heaning. A useful exclamation that sounds much ruder than it is.

Heaning mislet! My bike has got another puncture.

or

He is such a heaning mislet.

by bodhisattvan September 16, 2009