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to-year, adv. Now. dial.|təˈjɪə(r)| Forms: see year1. [f. to prep. A. 7 + year1: cf. to-day, to-night.] This year.
c1205Lay. 8039 Her liggeð to-ȝere Ten þusend of his iferen. c1290St. Brendan 240 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 226 Ȝoure ester ȝe schulle holde þer as ȝe dude to-ȝere. c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 168 Yet hadde I leuere wedde no wyf to yeere. c1400Gosp. Nicodemus 966 Of Ioseph..þat ȝe presond to ȝere. 1483Cath. Angl. 391/1 To ȝere, horno; hornus, hornotinus. a1575R. B. Appius & Virg. B j, Man, be mery to yeere. 1623Webster Duchess of Malfi ii. i, I have heard of none to year. 1727Gay Begg. Op. i. ii, Betty hath brought more Goods into our Lock to-year than any five of the Gang. 1828Craven Gloss. s.v. To, ‘We've a famous clip to year’, that is, this year. 1882Tennyson Promise of May i. Poems (1889) 781/2, I reckons they'll hev' a fine cider-crop to-year. 1886T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. I. 64 Not but what he's been shook a little to-year about this. |