yestreen

English

Alternative forms

yestereen

Etymology

From Middle English, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- +‎ e'en (“evening”).

Noun

yestreen (plural yestreens)

(chiefly archaic, poetic or Scotland) The night before.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Chapter ,
  It was the creature Dougal that extricated me, as he did yestreen […]
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:
  You have not forgotten our telephone conversation of yestreen, Jeeves?

Synonyms

see list in yestereve

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English yestereven (“yesterday evening”).

Noun

yestreen (plural yestreens)

yesterday evening, the night before

Adverb

yestreen (not comparable)

last night, yesterday

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