yestreen

[ ye-streen ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

yestreen

/ jɛˈstriːn /

1325–75; Middle English. See yester-, even ²

C14: from yest ( e ) r- + e ( v ) en ²

This fatal urn encloses a dead majesty, but yestreen a reverenced deity, now a mere heap of earth.

Jenny: Hoot, ay, sir; didna ye see a farm as ye came up yestreen, just three parks aff?

That was how things stood a couple of weeks syne, but yestreen I heard what may make the change wanted.

He got a lassie frae Auchenlochan to cook, but she and her box gaed off in the post-cairt yestreen.

The dominie was aboard the Falcon just before the Clasper came in yestreen, and I saw him again after ye were brought here.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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