单词 | how-do-ye |
释义 | how-do-yehow-d'yehowdyphr.n. Now Obsolete or dialect. 1. The phrase how do ye?, how do you? (cf. how-do-you-do phr. and n. 1) = how are you? how fare you?: see do v. 13b. Frequently in colloquial phrase to tell (a person) howdy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > terms of greeting God give you good dayc1275 hail be thou (also ye)c1275 pax vobisc1275 how do ye?1570 (good, fair) time of day (to you)1597 how goes it?1598 I salute youa1616 savea1616 how do you find yourself?a1646 how-do-you-do1697 how do?1886 how are you popping (up)?1894 how's (less frequently how are) tricks?1915 how's (or how are) things (or, originally Australia and New Zealand, tricks?)1926 how's life?1931 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1803/1 God be thanked for you. How doe you? c1828 T. O. Larkin in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1937) XVI. 25 They (Southerners) often correct Yankees in their speaking... In those words they are right, but not in..how de for how do you do. 1837 A. Wetmore et al. Gazetteer Missouri 287 With a smile of welcome as she gave her hand, said, ‘Howdy, Joseph.’ 1850 J. Price Let. 17 Apr. in Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. (1924) XI. 241 Tell Mother and the doctor Howdy. 1856 A. J. Hoole Let. 8 June in Kansas Hist. Q. (1934) III. 56 Give my love to..all enquiring friends; tell..all the negroes howdie for me. 1888 E. Eggleston Graysons i. 5 ‘Howdy, Rachel!’ said Henry Miller..and ‘Howdy! Howdy!’ came from the two sisters, to which Rachel answered with a cordial ‘Howdy! Come in!’ 1917 J. M. Grider War Birds 20 Sept. (1927) 10 All the soldiers in the harbor came over to tell us howdy. 1928 L. North Parasites i. 30 Mr. Ashton greeted Henry a trifle more warmly... ‘Howdy,’ he said. 1973 J. Mann Only Security ii. 16 I ought really to go in and say howdy to her. 2. n. A message or salutation containing an inquiry as to the health of a person; = how-do-you-do phr. and n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > greeting or salutation > specific greeting or salutation dieugardc1380 good day?a1439 hail?a1513 good morrow1528 good even1534 how-do-ye1575 all hail?1589 good evening1606 ave1611 good morninga1616 how-do-you-do1632 good afternoon1771 recollections1816 chin chin1822 chi-hike1859 cheero1909 wagwan1983 1575 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 90 To requite your gallonde of godbwyes, I regive you a pottle of howedyes. a1652 R. Brome Love-sick Court ii. i. 107 in Five New Playes (1659) My great Lords Howdies are upon the entry. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. x. 510 Had the Bishop sent to him by the way of a simple How d'ee only. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse ii. 26 He has already sent how do'ye's to all the Town. 1743 Annesley Ejectm. Trial in Howell St. Trials (1813) XVII. 1166 He was sent..with messages and how-do-yous, to know how their child did. 1894 Daily News 28 Apr. 8/2 A missionary meeting..at Kingston when the coloured children sent their ‘howdies’,..which was short for ‘how do you do’, to the white children of Britain. 3. attributive or adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [adjective] > greeting or saluting > specific how-do-yec1600 salaaming1816 c1600 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Cornwall (1728) 58 The next day this potentate becometh ‘How dee neighbour’ agayne. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. vi. 212 His how d'you man comes every day to know how I slept last night. 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl III. ii. 41 The howdye cards of all the lords, ladies [etc.]. 1806 J. Wolcot Wks. (1812) V. 297 No how-d'ye visits, my cool Neighbours make. 1931 Times 5 Nov. 13/4 The howdy folk of Kentucky may bring forth their best. 1932 E. Wallace When Gangs came to London xxiii. 224 It seems that this guy has been on howdy terms with the Big Boy ever since he came to town. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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