hi

After you insisted, you write that, “no one from the crew would meet my eyes or say hi.”

Uttered once, suddenly, from the far side of a hedge it would admirably convey such a sentiment as, "Hi!"

Instead of piping, "Hi, Mr. Crowninshield, did you find out anything?"

I helped Joe and Hi Upham take 'em off, one day, and 'twas a regular circus.

Truth is, sir, Hi wanted to ask Miss Wallace what she would like for dinner.

You must allow that I do not despise the ‘Hi's’ of the crowd from arrogance, but from a propensity to humanity and goodness.