sunny siden.adj.

Brit.

/ˈsʌnɪ sʌɪd/, U.S.

/ˈsəni ˌsaɪd/

Forms: see sunny adj. and side n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sunny adj., side n.¹

Etymology: < sunny adj. + side n.¹

A. n.

1. The side of a place or object which receives or tends to receive most sunlight. Formerly also: †the side of a fruit exposed most to the sun whilst ripening (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > side facing specific direction > side facing sun

sun sidec1400

sunny side?1440

sunny half1532

sun half1565

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 331 (MED) Fourme hit so that faire hit stonde yfere The wintir wonyng on the sonny side Ther Phebus with his bemys may hit chere.

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. xiii. sig. Nnvi^v Neither roote of tree, height of rocke, nor sonnye syde of any greene hill.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. 156 He lay vpon the sunny side, Of a great hill.

1640 L. Mascall Country-mans Recreation sig. A2^v Take of those which be on the Sunny-side, sooner than those that grow in the cover or shadow.

1678 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer (ed. 2) i. i. 3 To go..and bask himself on the sunny side of the Globe.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pears Ambrotia, a handsom good siz'd Pear,..of a smooth, greenish yellow Skin, red of the Sunny Side.

1765 C. Smart tr. Psalms David i. sig. B/1 The tree, that..Upon the river's sunny side Has timely fasten'd root.

1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 110 The worthy pedagogue selected the first green spot on the sunny side of a quickset-thorn hedge.

1879 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 8 259 If the column is heated to 120° Fah. on the sunny side, its temperature may be 80° on the opposite side.

1935 O. La Farge All Young Men 245 I was walking back to my place, enjoying a touch of real briskness in the air which made the sunny side of the street enjoyable.

1956 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China II. xiii. 274 Yin meant the shady side of a mountain or valley..,while Yang meant the sunny side.

2016 Hampshire Chron. (Nexis) 11 Aug. (advt.) The house has..a garden room and a conservatory both on the sunny side.

2. figurative or in figurative contexts. The most favourable, desirable, cheering, or optimistic part or aspect (of a person or thing); the bright side.See also on the sunny side of (thirty, forty, etc.) at Phrases 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > cheerful optimism > aspect or characteristic

sunny side1628

1628 D. Calderwood Pastor & Prelate iv. 40 To make this backside of the earth,..by the cleare and comforting beames of the Sunne of righteousnes, to be the sunnie side of the Christian world.

1697 E. Settle World in Moon ii. i. 9 I am for the warmer Sunny-side of Love.

1702 J. Drake Some Necessary Considerations relating to Elections 11 Men whose Eyes were always fixt on the Countenance of the Court, Men that were always resolv'd to be on the sunny side, be that whatever it was.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 177 In the description of Paradise itself you have Milton's sunny side as a man; here his descriptive powers are exercised to the utmost.

1840 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. (ed. 2) ii. iv. 138 To present the sunny side of the picture as the reverse of my gloomy one.

1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. vi. 141 Mary..was..of the same age as Frank; but, as I..have so often said before, ‘Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.’

1890 W. S. Gilbert Gondoliers ii. 119 Live to love and love to live—You will ripen at your ease, Growing on the sunny side—Fate has nothing more to give.

1931 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 1 Dec. 12/4 I am keeping my sunny side up by contemplating the misery of the man just below me.

1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 111 Sunny side (of the street), the ‘good life’; luxury, leisure and comfort.

2014 Australian (Nexis) 2 June 9 Tony Abbott is still looking on the sunny side of life.

B. adj.

Originally and chiefly U.S. Of an egg: fried on one side only, and served with the yolk uppermost; = sunny side up at Phrases 2. Cf. sunny side down at Phrases 3.

ΚΠ

1929 Lima (Ohio) News 15 Mar. 18/2 Breakfasted on orange juice, sunnyside eggs and bacon.

1976 Cruising World Jan. 60/1 Top it off with a sunny side egg and serve—with lots of beer.

2006 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 20 Nov. 36 There is tension when the two have a ‘moment’ debating whether the eggs should be sunnyside or not.

Phrases

P1. on the sunny side of (thirty, forty, etc.): on the right side of, younger than (the specified age); cf. on the shady side of at shady adj. 2b.

ΚΠ

1827 N.-Y. Spectator 28 Dec. We have to protest against the fashionable cloaks, in all cases where the figure is tolerable, and the wearer on the sunny side of forty.

1865 Atlantic Monthly 15 711 How many of us,..on the sunny side of thirty, have gone through the ‘Paradise Lost’?

1927 E. Wallace Ringer i. 5 Alan Wembury was on the sunny side of thirty.

2011 S. Woods Fisher Amish Values for your Family iii. 113 Tommy and Nathan, both on the sunny side of twenty, decided to play a trick on the schoolteacher.

P2. Originally U.S. sunny side up.

a. Of an egg: fried on one side only, and served with the yolk uppermost. Frequently as postmodifier. Also (and in earliest use) as noun: such an egg or eggs. Cf. sunny side down at Phrases 3.Originally in the slang of restaurant workers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [adjective] > (of fried eggs) prepared in a specific way

sunny side up1887

sunny side down1916

over easy1930

1887 Daily Jrnl. (Freeport, Illinois) 16 Mar. Two eggs fried on one side are transformed into ‘sunny side up’.

1887 Evening Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 6 Sept. 1/5 [Restaurant slang.] Pair o' white wings, sunny side up!

1927 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 21 June 6/1 They relished now and then an order of ham and sunny side up, a good cup of Java and a side of home fries.

1948 Royal Air Force Rev. Jan. 20/2 It's whizzo when you get a fried egg sunny-side-up for tea.

1979 R. Fiennes Hell on Ice iii. 32 Ginnie ladled her sunny-side-up eggs with semolina.

2007 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 24 July Tarte Flambee..is a popular dish of smoked salmon, dill-whipped ricotta, leeks, asparagus and eggs sunny side up.

b. figurative. Cheerful, optimistic. Cf. sunny adj. 4.

ΚΠ

1899 North Amer. (Philadelphia) 30 May A handsome, big, overgrown boy, with..a nature that was always sunny side up.

1953 A. Christie After the Funeral xii. 101 Worried, bad-tempered and irritable in the office. But since his uncle's death that's all changed. He's like the breakfast eggs (if we had 'em). Sunny side up!

1971 Madison (Wisconsin) State Jrnl. 27 Feb. Linda Eustice had the difficult task of playing the only heavy in a sunny-side-up story.

1998 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 18 Sept. 7 p A lifelong homemaker whose sunny-side-up attitude Ellen sees as pre-feminist, blinkered denial.

2015 R. D. Putnam Our Kids ii. 49 Andrew, a loquacious and sunny-side-up college sophomore whose family lives in a sprawling home.

P3. Originally U.S. sunny side down: (of an egg) fried on both sides; over easy. Chiefly as postmodifier. Cf. Phrases 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [adjective] > (of fried eggs) prepared in a specific way

sunny side up1887

sunny side down1916

over easy1930

1916 J. Forbes Commuters i. 16 Two on the pan, sunny side up or sunny side down?

1932 Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Jrnl. 19 Mar. Thirty fried eggs (sunny-side down) went..very fast, and soon breakfast became but a pleasant memory.

2016 Loughborough Echo (Nexis) 3 Aug. 16 I love fried egg and chips... I always have to flip the egg over because I like them sunny side down.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sunny side
释义	sunny siden.adj. Brit. /ˈsʌnɪ sʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈsəni ˌsaɪd/ Forms: see sunny adj. and side n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sunny adj., side n.¹ Etymology: < sunny adj. + side n.¹ A. n. 1. The side of a place or object which receives or tends to receive most sunlight. Formerly also: †the side of a fruit exposed most to the sun whilst ripening (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > side facing specific direction > side facing sun sun sidec1400 sunny side?1440 sunny half1532 sun half1565 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 331 (MED) Fourme hit so that faire hit stonde yfere The wintir wonyng on the sonny side Ther Phebus with his bemys may hit chere. 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. xiii. sig. Nnvi^v Neither roote of tree, height of rocke, nor sonnye syde of any greene hill. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. 156 He lay vpon the sunny side, Of a great hill. 1640 L. Mascall Country-mans Recreation sig. A2^v Take of those which be on the Sunny-side, sooner than those that grow in the cover or shadow. 1678 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer (ed. 2) i. i. 3 To go..and bask himself on the sunny side of the Globe. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pears Ambrotia, a handsom good siz'd Pear,..of a smooth, greenish yellow Skin, red of the Sunny Side. 1765 C. Smart tr. Psalms David i. sig. B/1 The tree, that..Upon the river's sunny side Has timely fasten'd root. 1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 110 The worthy pedagogue selected the first green spot on the sunny side of a quickset-thorn hedge. 1879 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 8 259 If the column is heated to 120° Fah. on the sunny side, its temperature may be 80° on the opposite side. 1935 O. La Farge All Young Men 245 I was walking back to my place, enjoying a touch of real briskness in the air which made the sunny side of the street enjoyable. 1956 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China II. xiii. 274 Yin meant the shady side of a mountain or valley..,while Yang meant the sunny side. 2016 Hampshire Chron. (Nexis) 11 Aug. (advt.) The house has..a garden room and a conservatory both on the sunny side. 2. figurative or in figurative contexts. The most favourable, desirable, cheering, or optimistic part or aspect (of a person or thing); the bright side.See also on the sunny side of (thirty, forty, etc.) at Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > cheerful optimism > aspect or characteristic sunny side1628 1628 D. Calderwood Pastor & Prelate iv. 40 To make this backside of the earth,..by the cleare and comforting beames of the Sunne of righteousnes, to be the sunnie side of the Christian world. 1697 E. Settle World in Moon ii. i. 9 I am for the warmer Sunny-side of Love. 1702 J. Drake Some Necessary Considerations relating to Elections 11 Men whose Eyes were always fixt on the Countenance of the Court, Men that were always resolv'd to be on the sunny side, be that whatever it was. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 177 In the description of Paradise itself you have Milton's sunny side as a man; here his descriptive powers are exercised to the utmost. 1840 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. (ed. 2) ii. iv. 138 To present the sunny side of the picture as the reverse of my gloomy one. 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. vi. 141 Mary..was..of the same age as Frank; but, as I..have so often said before, ‘Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.’ 1890 W. S. Gilbert Gondoliers ii. 119 Live to love and love to live—You will ripen at your ease, Growing on the sunny side—Fate has nothing more to give. 1931 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 1 Dec. 12/4 I am keeping my sunny side up by contemplating the misery of the man just below me. 1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 111 Sunny side (of the street), the ‘good life’; luxury, leisure and comfort. 2014 Australian (Nexis) 2 June 9 Tony Abbott is still looking on the sunny side of life. B. adj. Originally and chiefly U.S. Of an egg: fried on one side only, and served with the yolk uppermost; = sunny side up at Phrases 2. Cf. sunny side down at Phrases 3. ΚΠ 1929 Lima (Ohio) News 15 Mar. 18/2 Breakfasted on orange juice, sunnyside eggs and bacon. 1976 Cruising World Jan. 60/1 Top it off with a sunny side egg and serve—with lots of beer. 2006 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 20 Nov. 36 There is tension when the two have a ‘moment’ debating whether the eggs should be sunnyside or not. Phrases P1. on the sunny side of (thirty, forty, etc.): on the right side of, younger than (the specified age); cf. on the shady side of at shady adj. 2b. ΚΠ 1827 N.-Y. Spectator 28 Dec. We have to protest against the fashionable cloaks, in all cases where the figure is tolerable, and the wearer on the sunny side of forty. 1865 Atlantic Monthly 15 711 How many of us,..on the sunny side of thirty, have gone through the ‘Paradise Lost’? 1927 E. Wallace Ringer i. 5 Alan Wembury was on the sunny side of thirty. 2011 S. Woods Fisher Amish Values for your Family iii. 113 Tommy and Nathan, both on the sunny side of twenty, decided to play a trick on the schoolteacher. P2. Originally U.S. sunny side up. a. Of an egg: fried on one side only, and served with the yolk uppermost. Frequently as postmodifier. Also (and in earliest use) as noun: such an egg or eggs. Cf. sunny side down at Phrases 3.Originally in the slang of restaurant workers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [adjective] > (of fried eggs) prepared in a specific way sunny side up1887 sunny side down1916 over easy1930 1887 Daily Jrnl. (Freeport, Illinois) 16 Mar. Two eggs fried on one side are transformed into ‘sunny side up’. 1887 Evening Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 6 Sept. 1/5 [Restaurant slang.] Pair o' white wings, sunny side up! 1927 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 21 June 6/1 They relished now and then an order of ham and sunny side up, a good cup of Java and a side of home fries. 1948 Royal Air Force Rev. Jan. 20/2 It's whizzo when you get a fried egg sunny-side-up for tea. 1979 R. Fiennes Hell on Ice iii. 32 Ginnie ladled her sunny-side-up eggs with semolina. 2007 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 24 July Tarte Flambee..is a popular dish of smoked salmon, dill-whipped ricotta, leeks, asparagus and eggs sunny side up. b. figurative. Cheerful, optimistic. Cf. sunny adj. 4. ΚΠ 1899 North Amer. (Philadelphia) 30 May A handsome, big, overgrown boy, with..a nature that was always sunny side up. 1953 A. Christie After the Funeral xii. 101 Worried, bad-tempered and irritable in the office. But since his uncle's death that's all changed. He's like the breakfast eggs (if we had 'em). Sunny side up! 1971 Madison (Wisconsin) State Jrnl. 27 Feb. Linda Eustice had the difficult task of playing the only heavy in a sunny-side-up story. 1998 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 18 Sept. 7 p A lifelong homemaker whose sunny-side-up attitude Ellen sees as pre-feminist, blinkered denial. 2015 R. D. Putnam Our Kids ii. 49 Andrew, a loquacious and sunny-side-up college sophomore whose family lives in a sprawling home. P3. Originally U.S. sunny side down: (of an egg) fried on both sides; over easy. Chiefly as postmodifier. Cf. Phrases 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [adjective] > (of fried eggs) prepared in a specific way sunny side up1887 sunny side down1916 over easy1930 1916 J. Forbes Commuters i. 16 Two on the pan, sunny side up or sunny side down? 1932 Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Jrnl. 19 Mar. Thirty fried eggs (sunny-side down) went..very fast, and soon breakfast became but a pleasant memory. 2016 Loughborough Echo (Nexis) 3 Aug. 16 I love fried egg and chips... I always have to flip the egg over because I like them sunny side down. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.?1440
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