nonteet

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English non-tyde, from Old English nōntīd (noontide).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnʊnˌtiːt/

Noun

nonteet

  1. noontide rest
    • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, line 14-16, in APPENDIX:
      It is called in local dialect “enteet,” or more properly nonteet (noontide)—“the noontide rest."
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    Synonyms: enteete, saasty

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References

  • 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 128