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单词 on nights
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on nights
b. Chiefly colloquial. to do nights: to work the night shift. on nights: on the night shift. Cf. nights adv.
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1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xiii. 170 I gotta get down to the store—cigar-store. I'm on nights, three times a week.
1957 E. Midland Historian 7 33/1 I was on nights for two years because it was more money.
1998 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 18 June I don't do nights now although I have for the last five years.
2001 Western Daily Press (Electronic ed.) 20 Mar. Doing nights, you didn't feel part of the team.
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on (also in) nights
(a) on (also in) nights: by night, esp. usually or habitually. Cf. a-nights adv. Obsolete.
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the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb]
nightseOE
on nightOE
in (also of, on, upon) the nightOE
by nightlOE
on (also in) nightslOE
a-nightc1175
a-nightsc1175
at nightc1300
within nightc1400
a-nightertime?a1439
a nighttimes1567
at nights1581
nightly1597
benight1642
nocturnally1812
night-times1851
nitely1970
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1127 Soðfestemen heom kepten on nihtes.
c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 3 (MED) Þe gost..dooþ hem seen on niȝttes [v.r. anyȝttes] þe spirites & þe priuetes of god.
c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 488 (MED) Men mowe say þer Pater noster medefully under þo cope of heven, as Crist dide in þo hille in nyȝttus.
a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 31 (MED) Þe sonne cloþith þe eire on daies in his bemes, on nyghtes he hidiþ hem.
a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) 2016 (MED) Changing kirtils sal þai haue In nyghtes þer oþer forto saue.
1472 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 24 (MED) William, servaunt of Herry Couper, is a ryotter on nyghtes, sittyng up at uncovable tyme.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 506 Fra carleill all on nychtis ryde, And in covert on dayis byde.
a1500 Rule Minoresses in W. W. Seton Two 15th Cent. Franciscan Rules (1914) 84 Þey haue a blacke veyle I-spred aboue her hedis..wiþowte whiche þey schul mow be on nytes & some time on dayes bi licence of þe abbesse.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2019 in Poems (1981) 78 I sall fulfill..ȝour bidding, Quhat euer ȝe charge on nichtis or on dayis.
?1710 Squire Bickerstaff Detected 5 A Pack of Rascals, that walk the Streets on Nights.
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