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Etymology
From Middle English non-tyde, from Old English nōntīd (“noontide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
nonteet
- noontide rest
- 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, line 14-16, in APPENDIX:
It is called in local dialect “enteet,” or more properly nonteet (noontide)—“the noontide rest."- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Synonyms: enteete, saasty
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References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 128