yestreen
English
Alternative forms
- yestereen
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”).
Noun
yestreen (plural yestreens)
- (chiefly archaic, poetic or Scotland) The night before.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- It was the creature Dougal that extricated me, as he did yestreen […]
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 11, in Jeeves in the Offing:
- You have not forgotten our telephone conversation of yestreen, Jeeves?
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Synonyms
- see list in yestereve
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English yestereven (“yesterday evening”).
Noun
yestreen (plural yestreens)
- yesterday evening, the night before
Adverb
yestreen (not comparable)
- last night, yesterday