yester-minute

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

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adv

"thus it includes not only yesterday but yester-hour and yester-minute; this morning’s breakfast is already history"
"To some, nothing is older than a minutes-old Web page (to update the old saw about a day-old newspaper), but for others there is value in the Web sites of yester-minute and archivists have been wrestling with means of preserving today's Internet for tomorrow's scholars and researchers."

Etymology tree Middle English yister- English yester- English minute English yester-minute From yester- + minute.

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What does yester-minute mean?

The very recent past; minutes ago.

Where does yester-minute come from?

Etymology tree Middle English yister- English yester- English minute English yester-minute From yester- + minute.

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