| 单词 | yet for — ! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyet for — ! d. Scottish. — yet! (usually following a name): used to affirm enduring support for the specified person or thing; long live — !; — forever! Also in yet for — ! Now rare. ΚΠ 1764 in W. Fraser Chiefs of Grant (1883) II. 435 He had taken a fancy to call a little place nigh him by the name of New Aboyn; the old name was Buntie... One old woman..stood at the door of the Court house, still continueing to cry, and Buntie yet! and Buntie yet! 1817 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 56/1 Jean..[was] a staunch Jacobite... She..continued to exclaim..‘Charlie yet! Charlie yet!’ 1867 ‘A Royalist’ Loyalist's Daughter III. xlii. 249 As my father..cried, in spite of persecution, ‘Charlie yet! Charlie yet!’ so say I, Jamie yet! Jamie yet! Jamie shall have his own again. 1883 J. Martine Reminisc. Royal Burgh Haddington 44 A party of Haddingtonians had gone there [sc. Irvine] to see the pageant... While walking along, they were astonished to hear a man cry—‘Haddington yet! Haddington yet!’ 1935 Border Mag. Sept. 137/2 ‘Yeit for Boswells!’ used to be a common expression among boys when I was young. < as lemmas |
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