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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1944

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PREHECHIE, n. A wordy fuss, a prevarication which causes delay, a lengthening out of unnecessary preliminaries.Mearns5 1944:
Did he dee't for ye? Oh, ay, but he made an unco prehechie aboot it.

[? Nonce pseudo-learned fabrication based on pre-, in some such word as preamble, preface, etc., + Hech, v., to hum and haw.]

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