raree
English
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Noun
editraree (plural rarees)
Yola
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editDerived from Middle English *rare (“soft-cooked”), from Old English hrēr, hrēre.
Adjective
editraree [1]
- choice (lightly boiled)
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, pages 96[1]:
- Raree met in plathearès, ee-zet in a rooe,
- There was choice meat in platters, set in a row,
Etymology 2
editDerived from Middle English *rare (“neither sooner nor later”), from Old French rier, rere.
Adverb
editraree
- Neither sooner nor later.
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, lines 5[2]:
- Yola Vather Deruse hay raree cam thoare,
- Old Father Devereux
earlycame there,
- Old Father Devereux
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 64
- ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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