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English
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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 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Rob Roy. , volume III, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. ; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 95:It was the creature Dougal that extricated me, as he did yestreen […] .
1917, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter IV, in Piccadilly Jim, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company:"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."
Synonyms
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English yestereven (“yesterday evening”).
Noun
yestreen (plural yestreens)
- yesterday evening, the night before
Adverb
yestreen (not comparable)
- last night, yesterday