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guesten en · VERB

Etymology

From guest + -en.

Meanings

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, transitive) To entertain as a guest; to lodge as a guest.
   • Hence came it that the ports of Rome were opened (At our behests) to give you guestening. 2013, Barnabe Barnes, The Devil's Charter, page 36:
   • This stone has the But as there is no longer a chamber to “guesten" peculiar interest of having furnished the key by within, the adventure is nought, and the prophecy which the succession of stations became identified fulfilled. 1861, Once a Week, page 111:
   • If hospitality be reckoned among the fine arts and moral virtues, to "guesten" aright is a saving social grace. 1924, Virginia Terhune Van de Water, Present Day Etiquette: Including Social Forms, page 151:
   • Here have I come this length, trusting the godly Earl of Murray would be on his march to the Borders, for he was to have guestened with the Baron of Avenel; and instead of that comes news that he has gone westlandways about some tuilzie in Ayrshire. 1830, Walter Scott, Waverley Novels: The Monastery, volume 19, page 285:
   • But Toppet Hob o' the Main had guestened in my house by chance. 1882, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 131, page 490:

Forms

Deriveds

guestening