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yestreen

noun

Etymology

From Middle English yestreen, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + e'en (“evening”). Cognate with West Frisian justerjûn (“yestreen; last night”).

  1. inherited from ġiestranǣfen — “yesterday evening”
  2. inherited from yestreen

Definitions

  1. The night before

    The night before; last night.

    • It was the creature Dougal that extricated me, as he did yestreen […].
    • "Well, it's a funny thing, but I can't get rid of the impression that at some point in my researches into the night life of London yestreen I fell upon some person to whom I had never been introduced and committed mayhem upon his person."
    • You have not forgotten our telephone conversation of yestreen, Jeeves?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for yestreen. 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