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early bright en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (dated, qualifier:jive talk) Morning
   • He puts the boys to sleep with boogie every night / And wakes them up the same way in the early bright 1941, “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”, Don Raye (lyrics), Hughie Prince (music), performed by The Andrews Sisters:
   • Old Satchmo is back on the Main Drag and is gonna be beatin' out-ta mess o' righteous jive at the shpo-shoo spot until the early brights. 1944 December 8, “Broadway Jam Session”, in The Tampa Times:
   • EARLY BRIGHT (N) — morning. [1939, Cab Calloway, Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary:
   • A-mornin', noon and night / And in the early bright / Don't you fret, my pretty pet / I'm gonna treat you right 1965, Marvin Gaye, “Send for Me”:
   • It was three a.m. in the early brights, / And the joint was loaded with darks and lights. / A G.I. square was lapping Saki, / Hep to his jive, a Kat in Khaki. 1942 September 23, “Dim Out”, in Yank, The Poets Cornered, page 14:
   • Aw, let me get right / I’m out here in the early bright 1953, Professor Longhair, “Ball the Wall”:
   • She said she's leaving town about midnight / Arriving in the city on the early bright 1951, Duke Ellington, “Blues at Sundown”:

Forms

Antonyms

eveningtide · evetime · early black · undern · eveningtime · vesper · een · evening · vespertide · even · forenight · eve · eventide

Synonyms

sparrow-fart · early bright · forenoon · morrow · beforenoon · undertime · matin · prime · morn · foreday · morning