stime
English
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editEtymology
editFrom Old English scima (“a light”). Compare stymie.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /staɪm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪm
Noun
editstime (plural stimes)
- (UK, dialect) A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.
- 1794, The Har'st Rig:
- To cut their fur, and tak their share O' their nane rig.
But ony mair? The fient ae stime!
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stime”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editstime f
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