pree
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
idioms
Etymology
Origin of pree
1690–1700; shortened form of preive, Middle English preve (noun), preven (v.) < Old French pr ( o ) eve, preuver; see prove
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O th'art a mad wench, Moll, but I pree thee make haste, for the priest is gone before.
From The Puritaine Widdow by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
We be soldiers three, Pardona moy je vous an pree, Lately come forth of the Low Country With never a penny of money.
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
His hair a' lang about his bree, His tap-lip lang by inches three - A slockened sort 'mon,' to pree A' sensuality - A droutly glint was in his e'e An' personality.
From New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
Charge it again, boy, charge it again, Pardona moy je vous an pree, As long as there is any ink in thy pen, With never a penny of money.
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
I did but pree her dinner cheer, And hadna drunk twa jugs o' toddy, When in she bang'd like ony bear— Oh, she is an awsome body!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
"Dese vitches are nod of dis eart', Und yed are on id, I see, Der Shakesbeare knew de preed right vell," Said Breitemann, said he.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland
T'ey are an ignorant, ant selfish, ant prutal preed; ant I may haf triet 'em too sorely.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
After looking at the sheep, tasting old Janet's best kebbuck, and oatmeal cakes, and preeing the whisky bottle, the young farmer again set out through the deep snow, on his way home.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
In particular, amongst this latter kind of worshipful society, there was no man who had any talents—real or fancied—for thumping or being thumped, but had experienced some preeing of his merits from Mr. Wilson.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg
Captain Body was back in the Den by and by, but he had no thought of preeing lasses' mouths now.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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