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单词 what cheer with you?
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what cheer with you?
P5. what cheer? (formerly also †what cheer with you?, †what cheer make you?): used as a friendly greeting or salutation; ‘how do you feel?’ ‘how are you?’. Now archaic or regional.Cf. wotcher int.
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a1450 York Plays (1885) 115 Say, Marie doghtir, what chere with þe?
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 143 A, Gyll, what chere?
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xiv. sig. Biii What chere make you fayre loue Jehannet.
1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 51 How do you wife, what chere with you?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 2 Heere Master: What cheere ? View more context for this quotation
1676 R. Williams George Fox digg'd out of his Burrowes 308 Except you begin with a What Chear or some other Salutation, you had as good meet an Horse or a Cow.
1729 J. Gay Polly ii. v. 33 What cheer, my lads? Has fortune sent you a good prize?
1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. x. 210 He rose and received him with the salutation of ‘What cheer, brother?’
1828 T. Moore Meeting of Ships ii. 8 Ship ahoy! ship ahoy! what cheer? what cheer?
1840 C. G. F. Gore Dacre of South iii. ii. 41 How fares it with our friend?—What cheer with Mansel?
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words at How The ordinary formula of the salute is ‘How there, marra?’ with the reply, interrogative, of ‘What cheer, hinney?’
1928 Daily Mail 25 July 10/6 Then their politeness. No slapping a friend on the back with a ‘What cheer, old fruit?’
2003 J. Stockwin Mutiny (2004) vii. 177 What cheer, Tom?
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