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the dear knows

phrase

Etymology

Unclear. Bliss and Dolan suggest a conflation of dear, as in "oh dear" or "the Dear Lord", and deer, by analogy with the conflation in Irish of Fiadha "God" and fiadh "deer".

  1. derived from of Fiadha "God" and fiadh "deer"

Definitions

  1. God knows

    God knows; nobody knows

    • O thou, whom poets call Melpomene, Who hast inspir'd, the dear knows how many In ancient times to sing O Dear O's On hapless fates of unknown heroes,
    • I know where I’m going, I know who’s going with me, I know who I love, But the dear knows who I’ll marry.
    • And there it sits, spreading rubbish about because of the cats, and smelling like the Dear knows what.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for the dear knows. 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