raree
Yola
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾɔːˈɾiː/
Etymology 1
Derived from Middle English rere (“soft-cooked”), from Old English hrēr, hrēre.
Adjective
raree [1]
Etymology 2
Derived from Middle English rere (“neither sooner nor later”), from Old French rier, rere.
Adverb
raree
- Neither sooner nor later.
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, lines 5[2]:
- Yola Vather Deruse hay raree cam thoare,
- Old Father Devereux
earlycame there,
- Old Father Devereux
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 64
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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