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een en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland, archaic, form-of, plural) plural of eye
    form of eye
    • But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget. John Dodds said they were the een of a deer with the Devil ahint them; and indeed, they would so appal an onlooker that a sudden unreasoning terror came into his heart, while his feet would impel him to flight. 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
    • And eke with fatnesse swollen were his eyne 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:
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een en · ADV · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

From a contraction of even.

Meanings

  1. (Northern-England, dialectal, not-comparable) even.

een en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

Etymology

From even (“evening”).

Meanings

  1. (Scotland, dialectal, poetic) evening.

Forms

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Synonyms

eve · forenight · eventide