guesten

English

Etymology

From guest +‎ -en.

Verb

guesten (third-person singular simple present guestens, present participle guestening, simple past and past participle guestened)

1. (dialectal, transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To entertain as a guest; to lodge as a guest.
   • 1830, Walter Scott, Waverley Novels: The Monastery, volume 19, page 285:

     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.

   • 1861, Once a Week, page 111:

     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.

   • 1882, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 131, page 490:

     But Toppet Hob o' the Main had guestened in my house by chance.

   • 1924, Virginia Terhune Van de Water, Present Day Etiquette: Including Social Forms, page 151:

     If hospitality be reckoned among the fine arts and moral virtues, to "guesten" aright is a saving social grace.

   • 2013, Barnabe Barnes, The Devil's Charter, page 36:

     Hence came it that the ports of Rome were opened (At our behests) to give you guestening.

Derived terms

• guestening

Scots

Verb

guesten

1. (obsolete, transitive) To lodge as a guest.