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pea-time U.S. colloq.
[f. pea1 7.]
The season in which peas ripen. So fig. in phr. the last of pea-time: the last stage of anything, the end of one's life; pea-time is past: a thing is finished.
1834[see last a. 1 d.]. 1850‘M. Tensas’ Odd Leaves Life Louisiana Swamp Doctor 174 It war the last of pea⁓time with me, sure, if I didn't rise 'fore bar did. 1862J. R. Lowell in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 128 Ther' 's ollers chaps a-hangin' roun thet can't see pea-time's past. 1867― Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. p. lviii, Last of pea-time, to be hard up. 1889‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot of Broomsedge Cove x. 174 Ye oughter git some air an' light, Marcelly; ye look like the las' o' pea-time. 1893M. A. Owen Voodoo Tales 199 'Deed my gyarden am a-lookin' mighty bad. Hit look mo' lak de las' o' pea-time den de fust o' truck⁓time. 1904[see last a. 1 d]. 1911R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter 108 ‘What on earth's the matter, Bill?’ he asked. ‘You look like the last of pea-times.’ 1923Dialect Notes V. 238 Utterly worn out. ‘He looks like the last o' pea-time.’ |