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eftsoons

adv

Etymology

From eft (“again, after”) + soon + -s (“adverb suffix”) – both senses (“soon after”, “again”) derive from senses of eft, which is related to after. Compare modern English soon after.

  1. inherited from *suniz✻ — “soon”
  2. derived from *só✻
  3. inherited from *sēna✻
  4. inherited from *sān(ō)✻
  5. inherited from sōna — “immediately, at once”
  6. inherited from sone
  7. compounded as eftsoons — “eft + soon”

Definitions

  1. Once again

    Once again; another time.

  2. Soon after, presently.

    • But wil you giue me leaue now eftsones a while to play the Sophister his part with you?
    • He holds him with his skinny hand, / “There was a ship,” quoth he. / “Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!” / Eftsoons his hand dropt he.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eftsoons. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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