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birthnight

noun

Etymology

From birth + night.

  1. inherited from *nókʷts✻ — “night”
  2. inherited from *nahts✻ — “night”
  3. inherited from *naht✻ — “night”
  4. inherited from niht
  5. inherited from nighte
  6. compounded as birthnight — “birth + night”

Definitions

  1. The night of someone's birth.

  2. The night of someone's birthday.

    • And of the Angelic Song in Bethlehem field, / On thy birth-night, that ſung thee Saviour born.
    • he was on his way home and was going to take her out to IHOP for a late night birthday. I guess the best thing to have done, had I known , would have been to wish her a Happy Birthnight.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA