| 单词 | to wish a good afternoon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wish (also bid) (a person) a good afternoon As part of a customary expression of good wishes on meeting or parting during the afternoon (cf. sense A.). Chiefly in to wish (also bid) (a person) a good afternoon, and (as an address) a good afternoon to you. 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 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 145 Our noble entertainer proposed three general toasts; then calling for a glass of wine, and bowing all round, wished us a good afternoon. 1840 T. E. Hook Precepts & Pract. I. 218 I speedily summoned Mrs. Bunny, and having discharged my little bill, bade her a good afternoon, and promised to come to her early in the morning. 1848 Holden's Dollar Mag. Mar. 145/2 Good-bye, Miss Margaret, my ocean lily—a good afternoon to you, old hero of a hundred fights. 1918 A. S. Bailey Tale of Buster Bumblebee xiii. 61 Wishing the Carpenter Bee a hasty good-afternoon, he flew off to find little Mrs. Ladybug. 1997 G. Williams Diamond Geezers vi. 49 A pudgy white woman..eyed him with suspicion when he wished her a good afternoon. < as lemmas |
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