Yestreen

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The night before; last night. Scotland, archaic, poetic

    "It was the creature Dougal that extricated me, as he did yestreen […]."

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"It was the creature Dougal that extricated me, as he did yestreen […]."

Etymology

From Middle English yestreen, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + e'en (“evening”). Cognate with West Frisian justerjûn (“yestreen; last night”).

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