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yestreen, adv. and n. Chiefly Sc. and poet.|jɛˈstriːn|
Forms: α. 4 ȝhistrewyn, ȝystrewine, 5 yistrevyn, ȝistreuen. β. 6 ȝestrene, ȝistrene, yestrene, yeistrein, 8– yestreen. γ. corruptly. 6 the strene, 8 the straine, 9 the streen, thestreen.
[MSc. ȝystrewin = ȝystir (see yesterday) + ewin even n., in the 16th c. contracted to ȝistrene, later yestreen (18th cent.), in which form it was taken up by English writers.]
A. adv. On the evening of yesterday; yesterday evening.
αc1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxiii. (vii Sleepers) 229 Ȝystrewine wele lat. a1400Northern Passion 1489 Ȝhistrewyn when þe day was gane. c1440Alphabet of Tales 245 Yone gude liberall monke, your hostley, servid me yistrevyn at my supper wurthelie. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7426 Ȝistreuen he was in his awen steed.
β1513Douglas æneis v. xi. 72 In my sleip ȝestrene. 1583in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 422/2 Twa missives, the ane..quhilk he ressauit yeistrein. a1600Montgomerie Sonn. xli. 1 So suete a kis ȝistrene fra thee I reft. 1721Ramsay Bessy Bell & Mary Gray i, Bessy Bell I loo'd yestreen. 1785Burns Halloween xv, I mind't as weel's yestreen. 1821Scott Pirate vii, I did feel a rheumatize in my back⁓spauld yestreen. 1837Lowell Let. to G. B. Loring 23 Aug., An' 'twas but late yestreen I met her And—ah! those een! 1894Crockett Raiders iii, He was tired yestreen, and he's the better o' a rest this morning.
γ1587W. Fowler Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 129/88 That which long tyme past before or present is in sight, which was the strene, or yit tomorrow. 1711Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, & Sir Gray-Steel 1753 The streen to chamber I him led. 1790Morison Poems 134 The merligoes are yet before your e'en And paint to you the sight ye've seen the streen. a1800Fair Ellen xxiv. in Child Ballads (1894) V. 221/2, I dreamed a dream san the strain. 1873[P. Buchan] Leg. North 29 Quo he, ‘Guidwife! I had a thocht thestreen’.
B. n. The evening of yesterday.
1816Scott Antiq. xi, When the sea was working like barm wi' yestreen's wind. 1861J. R. Green Lett. (1901) ii. 75, I spent yestreen at the Crystal Palace. |