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sun-up, sunup local U.S. (chiefly Midland), Caribbean, and formerly (perh. rendering Afrikaans sonop) S. Afr.|ˈsʌnʌp|
[f. sun n.1 + up adv., after sundown.]
Sunrise. Freq. in phr. from sun-up to sun-down.
1712T. Banister Let. 12 Nov. in Coll. Connecticut Hist. Soc. (1924) XXI. 377 Wee Set out by or before Sun up, for Wyndham. 1826J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. iv. 69 One would think such a horse as that might get over a good deal of ground atwixt sun-up and sun-down. 1847Longfellow in Life (1891) II. 83 In a letter from Tampico to the N.C. Fayetteville Observer (is the writer a Carolinian?), I find the Anglo-Saxon expression sun-up, for sunrise. ‘By sun-up, Patterson's regiment had left the encampment.’ 1873J. Miller Life among Modocs viii. 90 Why we should..toil like gnomes from sun-up to sun-down..was to them more than a mystery—it was a terror. 1887Rider Haggard Jess xxxii. 305 Will you consent to marry me to-morrow morning at sun up, or am I to be forced to carry the sentence on your old uncle into effect? 1896Peterson Mag. (N.S.) VI. 265/2 On foot from sunup to sundown. 1899G. H. Russell Under Sjambok x. 105 It is a Boer custom to call and drink coffee just after sun-up. 1903K. D. Wiggin Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm x. 102, I could teach school from sun-up to sun-down if scholars was all like Rebecca Randall. 1920[see klomp]. 1949Caribbean Q. I. iii. 45 Your face turned to sun-up. a1963S. Plath Crossing Water (1971) 47 The blue hour before sunup. 1965‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest viii. 99 Another hour and it was sun-up. 1976A. Haley Roots (1977) cxiii. 646 Twenty-eight wagons were packed and ready to roll on the following sunup. |