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Etymology
From Middle English geson, gesene (“rare, scarce”), from Old English gǣsne (“deprived of, wanting, destitute, barren, sterile, dead”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaisnī (“barren, poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰē- (“to be gaping, yawn”). Cognate with North Frisian gast (“barren”), Low German güst (“barren”), Old High German geisini, keisini (“lack”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡiːzən/, /ˈɡeɪzən/, /ˈɡɛzən/
Adjective
geason (comparative more geason, superlative most geason)
- (rare or dialectal) Rare; uncommon; scarce.
16th century, Nicholas Udall, Falcon White:This white falcon rare and gaison,
This bird shineth so bright.
1588, George Puttenham, “Of Proportion”, in The Arte of English Poesie; republished as George Gregory Smith, editor, Elizabethan Critical Essays, volume 2, Oxford University Press, 1937, page 119:[…] ye shal finde many other word to rime with him, bycause such terminations are not geazon […]
1591, Edmund Spenser, Visions of the Worlds Vanitie:Such as this Age, in which all good is geason, […]
1594, Thomas Lodge, The Wounds of Civil War, act 2; republished as John Payne Collier, Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, editors, A Select Collection of Old Plays, volume 8, London: Septimus Prowett, 1825, page 32:Lectorius, friends are geason now-a-days, / And grow to fume before they taste the fire.
- (UK dialectal) Difficult to procure; scant; sparing.
- (rare or dialectal) Unusual; wonderful.
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