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prettygoodwordeftsoons (eft-SOONZ) - adv., (arch.) soon after, presently; (obs.) again, another time.
Zounds! I mostly know the first sense but have seen some uses (mainly in medieval romances) of the second. The divergence in meanings goes back to its roots in Old English eftsōna, from eft, after/again (related to æfter, the form that became after) + sōna, soon.
---L.
Zounds! I mostly know the first sense but have seen some uses (mainly in medieval romances) of the second. The divergence in meanings goes back to its roots in Old English eftsōna, from eft, after/again (related to æfter, the form that became after) + sōna, soon.
---L.
