单词 | ownest |
释义 | ownestn. colloquial. After a possessive: (as a term of endearment) one's darling, one's sweetheart. Cf. own adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > affection > [adjective] > expressing affection or tenderness ownest1839 1839 N. Hawthorne Let. 17 July (1984) 328 Your own, own, ownest. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. iv. 196 Could you believe, my Ownest, that I came in here with the name of an aspirant to our Georgiana on my lips? 1900 H. Lawson Mitchell on Matrimony in On Track A man can't go on talking lovey-dovey talk for ever, and..telling her he loves his little ownest every minute in the day, while the bills are running up, and [etc.]. 1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara i. in John Bull's Other Island 253 Lomax: How is my ownest today? 1930 L. W. Lower Here's Luck ix My ownest, Why have you not written to me? Is anything wrong? 2000 The Magnificent Dream in soc.culture.romanian (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Aug. Yes, Mutty, yes darling, my ownest, I'll be right there. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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