mayern.
/ˈmeɪə/, U.S. /ˈmeɪər/ A person who participates in the festivities of May Day or of the month of May; a person who goes maying.
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1578 M.S. in R. Edwards Paradyse Daynty Deuises (new ed.) sig. Diii Modest maying mettest is, of this you may be suer, A modest maying quietnes, to Mayers doth procure.
1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans II. 152 They set out on foot to join the merry mayers.
1823 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 566 Parties of these Mayers are seen dancing.
1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 23 All but a few of the mayers had risen from the table.
1966 A. Jobson Suffolk Cal. i. 57 In Cambridgeshire the Mayers went round the villages at three o'clock in the morning and left a branch of may at each door.
1976 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 May 3/1 The Mayers assemble, the Teazer comes with club swinging [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1578- throw the baby out with the bathwater
- throw the bones
- throw the book at a person
- throw the bridle in a person's neck
- throw the bridle on a person's neck
- throw the gauntlet
- throw the handkerchief
- throw the handkerchief at
- throw the handkerchief to
- throw the handle after the hatchet
- throw the hatchet
- throw the hatchet after the helve
- throw the helve after the hatchet
- throw the house out at the window
- throw the house out at the windows
- throw the house out of the window
- throw the house out of the windows
- throw the kitchen sink at
- throw the seven
- throw the stocking
- throw thrust) in a person's face
- throw thrust) something in a person's face
- throw to
- throw to the dogs
- throw to the wolves