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Definitions by bodhisattvan

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.
Heaning 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.
Heaning Mislet by bodhisattvan September 16, 2009