New Year's giftn.
/ˌnjuː jɪəz ˈɡɪft/, /ˌnjuː jəːz ˈɡɪft/, U.S. /ˌn(j)u ˌjɪrz ˈɡɪft/ 1. Also New Year gift, † New Year's give. A gift made to another on, or for, New Year's Day.
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift at Christmas or New Year > gift at New Year
yeresyeve1194
New Year's gifta1400
hogmanay1443
yeresgift1545
a1400 in N. Neilson Customary Rents (1910) 31 (MED) [A tenant by ancient enfeoffment] debet dare ad consuetudinem illam que vocatur newyeresgive vij d. et ob. sed contradicit.
1446 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 103 (MED) De ij gros of neweȝere gyftes, ij s.
1511–12 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 323 Deliverit be the Kingis grace to the Quenis grace in hir new ȝeir gift ane small linkit chenȝee knoppit.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 248/1 Newe yeres gyfte, estrayne.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) Pref. I thought to præpare some litle treatise for a Newyeares gift that Christmas.
1603 Lady A. Stuart Let. 8 Dec. (1994) 194 I asked hir advise for a newyearesguifte for the Queene.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 329 To send him yearly the value of twenty thousand Crowns as a New-years-gift.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 300 It shall be always allow'd to give the Time of the Day, but no New-Years-Gifts.
1725 H. Bourne Antiquitates Vulgares xvi. 142 The Sending of Presents, which are termed New-Year's-Gifts.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 177/1 An order of Tiberius, forbidding the giving or demanding of new-year's-gifts.
1886 H. S. Sutton Poems (title of poem) A New Year's gift.
1963 Times 9 Mar. 11/5 Queen Elizabeth herself deigned to accept a New Year gift of a ‘pin pillow embrodred’.
1997 Renaissance Q. 50 459 The 1588-89 New Year's gifts include, in addition to £795 in gold, almost six dozen gifts of clothing, most of them richly embroidered.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers
githa1382
nigellaa1398
gollana1400
pilewort?a1425
gold-knop1538
fig-wort1548
lucken gowan1548
melanthion1559
gold crap1571
bachelor's buttons1578
celandine1578
gold cup1578
Goldilocks1578
nigel1578
nigelweed1578
troll flower1578
peppergrass1587
golden cup1589
globe crowfoot1597
globeflower1597
winter aconite1597
kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664
devil-in-a-bush1722
globe ranunculus1731
turban1760
love-in-a-mist1787
love-in-a-puzzle1824
fair-grass1825
water buttercup1831
golden knobs1835
ficary1848
New Year's gift1856
bishop wort1863
fennel-flower1863
golden ball1875
1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 51 Aconite (Winter)..is commonly known as ‘The New Year's Gift’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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