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yestreen
Yestreen (noun) means (dialect) The previous night; last night.
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(dialect) The previous night; last night.
"You have not forgotten our telephone conversation of yestreen, Jeeves?"
— Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1960)
""Well, it's a funny thing, but I can't get rid of the impression that at some point in my researches into the night life of London yestreen I fell upon some person to whom I had never been introduced and committed mayhem upon his person.""
— Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1917)
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Etymology
Comes from Middle English yestreen, an alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + e'en (“evening”). It is cognate with West Frisian justerjûn (“yestreen; last night”).
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"yestreen" (noun) means (dialect) The previous night; last night.
