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half…half…
P1. half…half…: used correlatively to couple two contrasting expressions.The components so coupled may be noun phrases, adjectives, adverbial phrases, or verbs.Sometimes hyphenated to the following word.See also half man, half beast at man n.1 1d.In quot. eOE2 probably still to be interpreted as postposed adjective; cf. discussion in etymology section.
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eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. ix. 28 Þonne heton hi hie Centauri—þæt sindon healf hors, healf men—for þon hie on horse hie feohtan ne gesawen ær þa.
eOE Bounds (Sawyer 495) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 541 Ðonne is þæt land æt Snocescumbe healf þæs cinges, healf uncer Brentinges.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 211 Huo þet bit god wyþ-oute deuocion of herte: he spekþ to god patroyllart, ase þe ilke þet spekþ half englis and half urenss.
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 25 (MED) Take Elys or Gurnard, & parte hem half in Wyne, & half in watere, in-to a potte.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 173 (MED) He..hadde fallen in-to a slomerynge, scilicet, half slepyng, half wakyng.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 86 The Sonne..halfe above the Horizont, and half under.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 23 I ment not that they are halfe good, and halfe evill.
1614 Bp. J. Hall Recoll. Treat. ii. 60 An euill man is halfe a beast, and halfe a Diuell.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. lxvii. 274 With..one of his Stockins, half on half off, about his Heel.
1783 Amer. Wanderer viii. 97 The..swain..urges to the unhallowed bower, the half-willing, half-affrighted maid.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 42 Half shewing, half concealing all The uncouth trophies of the hall.
1858 A. Lincoln Speech 16 June in J. G. Nicolay & J. Hay Life Lincoln (1890) II. viii. 137 I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
1910 J. A. Symonds in Bk. of Christmas 109 The shepherds kneel, rustically chanting a carol half in Latin, half in English.
2008 C. Calder Paper Alice vii. 157 I was half-laughing, half-annoyed.
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