单词 | down yonder |
释义 | > as lemmasdown yonder down yonder adv. (a) down there; down at or to a particular place (now archaic and regional); (b) spec. (U.S.) in or into the States south of the Mason–Dixon line; = down South adv. ΚΠ 1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe i. 3 Now if you bee kinde gentlemen, let vs sit downe yonder, vpon Pennylesse Bench. 1735 J. Ozell tr. L. J. C. S. d'Allainval L'embaras des Richesses: Plague of Riches ii. 113 A Lawyer named Briareus, who lives down yonder, leading to the Beggars-Hospital. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. i. 13 In the methodist chapel down yonder, where they are in the thick of a revival. 1922 H. Creamer & J. T. Layton ’Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (sheet music) 3 'Way down yonder in New Orleans In the land of dreamy scenes. 1944 D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 133 A big Northern city where lines of color are not so pronounced as down yonder. 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 43 We can cross right down yonder off of that shoal. 2013 A. M. Howell Raised up down Yonder vi. 145 We're not all country..and you know talk like ‘down yonder’. < as lemmas |
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