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good morrow en · INTJ

Pronunciation

  • /ɡʊd ˈmɒɹəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English good morow, good morwe.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) Good morning.
    • Good morrow! / Name's Walter. I do a bit of maintenance here and there on ol' bessie. […] 2023 October 26, Anders Grube Jensen, Peaks of Yore, TraipseWare, scene: Approaching to Walter, level/area: Old Mill:
    • Good Morrow, Neighbour; good Morrow, Neighbour Cloggit; How do's all at your Houſe this Morning? 1705, [John Vanbrugh], The Confederacy. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
    • "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn." 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
    • Creſ[ſida]. Good morrow vncle Pandarus. Pan[darus]. Good morrow cozen Creſſid: what doe you talke of? good morrow, Alexander: how doe you cozen? when were you at Ilium? c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

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good morrow en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɡʊd ˈmɒɹəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English good morow, good morwe.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) A greeting consisting of the interjection.
  2. (obsolete) Riverhemp, sesban.
    • Among the plants and shrubs that I saw, and could form any knowledge of, were the sisban, or large thorny sensitive plant, sometimes called the good-morrow, these are abundant among the underwoods. 1797, Joseph Hawkins of New York, A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa: and travels into the interior of that country, [A book https://www.jstor.org/stable/3172055] questioned to be a hoax, first Edition in Philadelphia page 133 and two editions in Troy by Luther Pratt page 133:

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