anes

American  

[ayns] / eɪns /

adverb

Chiefly Scot.

1. once.

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Etymology

Origin of anes

Middle English, Old English, equivalent to ān one + -es adv. genitive suffix

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Example Sentences

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anes

"It's no unlikely," said I; "I ken the maist o' the leevin folks o' the parish, and my faither kens a' the dead anes."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton

And, for my pairt, I dinna see what fish is guid for, if not to be catch'd and eaten, specially the big anes!

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

It was an ugly lick; but there were a hantle o' uglier anes than it gaun whar it was gotten.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various

"Because"—and he spoke mournfully, as he stuck his fingers through a large hole in the toe—"if Santa Claus puts onything intil thir anes, it'll fa' oot."

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford

Dear lassie," he cries, wi' a jeer, "Ne'er heed what the auld anes will say; Though we 've little to brag o', near fear— What 's gowd to a heart that is wae?

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

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