yestreen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Late yestreen I saw the new moon, the old moon in her arms"
- "It was the creature Dougal that extricated me, as he did yestreen […]"
- "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."
- "You have not forgotten our telephone conversation of yestreen, Jeeves?"
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: yestreen, ġiestranǣfen
Usage
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
list in yestereve