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well(-)done, ppl. a.|ˈwɛlˈdʌn|
†1. Wise, prudent, virtuous. Obs.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 29 Ðu ert wel don man, and þarto wurðlich. c1205[see ydon].
2. a. Skilfully or rightly performed or executed.
c1449Pecock Repr. ii. viii. 190 It is a merytorie and a weel don deede. 1479Cely Papers (Camden) 22 Hyt wher whell⁓doyn to enqwer..how he mythet be payd. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. i. v. 253 We will draw the Curtain, and shew you the picture..Ist not well done? 1606― Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 328–9 What worke is heere Charmian? Is this well done? Char. It is well done, and fitting for a Princesse. 1890Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip XXVI. 82 This is a clear and well-done translation. 1900Westm. Gaz. 5 May 2/1 A well-done landscape of late autumn.
b. as an exclamation, expressing approval of what some one has done.
c1460Towneley Myst. xvi. 347 Secundus Miles. Well done! 1538Elyot Dict., Euge, well done. 1611Bible Matt. xxv. 21 Well done, thou good and faithfull seruant. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 3 Oct., Well done, my dear boy!—O bravo! 1791Burns Tam o' Shanter 189 Tam..roars out, ‘Weel done, Cutty-sark!’ 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 243 Ion. I obtained the first prize of all, Socrates. Soc. Well done.
c. quasi-n. The utterance of this exclamation, as an expression of commendation.
1628Earle Microcosm., Self-conceited Man (Arb.) 32 Two excellent well-dones haue vndone him. 1790Proc. African Assoc. 42 A single well-done from your Association has more worth in it to me, than all the trappings of the East. 1840R. H. Dana Two Yrs. bef. Mast xi. (1854) 49 Fortunately I got through without any word from the officer, and heard the ‘well done’ of the mate, when the yard reached the deck.
†d. quasi-n. What is well done. (In quot. personified.) Obs.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. lii. 236 And curious thay That, dribling Almes by Arte, disband wel-Meant from wel-Dons pay.
3. Of meat: Thoroughly cooked.
1747H. Glasse Art of Cookery i. 4 Pork must be well done, or it is apt to Surfeit. 1846A. Soyer Gastron. Regen. p. xxi, Veal and pork must be well done. Venison must be underdone.
▸ Brit. colloq.well done that man and variants.
1988Sc. Curler Nov. 21/1 Tuesday saw the first competition played and won by Steven Macdonald who managed to throw the most consistent barrier weight over 4 stones—well done that man! 1993I. Banks Complicity (1996) ix. 203 She sees the bottle in Yvonne's hand. ‘Oh, I say, well done that woman.’ She holds out her flute. Yvonne fills the glass. 2003Re: Seven in a Million & a Half in alt.adjective (Usenet newsgroup) 15 Feb. I watched it on TV, and thought of you being there. Well done that man. |