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prettygoodwordyestreen (yes-TREEN) - n./adv., yesterday evening.
Now mostly Scottish (and in ballads). Formed from combining those two words -- which was done as far back as Old English ġiestranǣfen, which became Middle English yestereven, and then yestre'en by the 14th century.
---L.
Now mostly Scottish (and in ballads). Formed from combining those two words -- which was done as far back as Old English ġiestranǣfen, which became Middle English yestereven, and then yestre'en by the 14th century.
---L.
