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a thing
a. a thing (without qualifying word or expression): (in indefinite sense) anything, something. Now rare (chiefly regional in later use).Formerly also without article.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > state of being non-specific > unspecified thing(s) > something or someone
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someonec1305
a thinga1382
somebodya1400
sumpin1850
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xiv. 12 Steȝeth vp to vs & wee schul shewen ȝou a thyng.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14952 (MED) Þai wil me neuer luue, i-wiss, For thing i mai þam tell.
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. xxv. f. lxxv Neuer ne dyde he body thyng withouten thyn assent.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 24 I pray you to telle it to me, yf it is thinge that I may knowe.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. lxxxvi. [lxxxii.] 255 They neuer dyd thynge that they wolde haue ben gladder.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 138 Shall I tell you a thing ? View more context for this quotation
1664 J. Wilson Cheats sig. A4 Nor let the sisters pule,—(I'll tell y' a thing) He may be libb'd, and yet have left, a string.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress i. 142 Ho, turn aside hither, and I will shew you a thing . View more context for this quotation
1831 T. C. Grattan Jacqueline of Holland I. iii. 60 I'll tell you a thing, Bishop Zweder; you know as little of the bold candour of chivalry as this English earl does of the guile of priestcraft.
1863 J. S. Le Fanu House by Church-yard III. iv. 33 Well, then, Moggy Sullivan and Elizabeth Burke, harkee both, while I tell you a thing.
1939 E. Sheehy God send Sunday 27 ‘Ma, Ma, don't mind that. Let me tell you a thing.’ ‘Don't talk to me. I'm going to bed.’
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