noight

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English

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Etymology

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From night.

Noun

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noight (plural noights)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of night.
    • 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Firm of Girdlestone[1]:
      "Good noight to ye all," and he trotted back into his office with his hat and its silver contents in his hand.
    • 1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell at Yale[2]:
      Oi'd not loike to be in his place this noight!"
    • 1877, Bret Harte, The Story of a Mine[3]:
      For it's meself as hasn't sturred fut out of the store the day and noight,--more betoken as the boys I've sarved kin testify."
    • 1917, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages[4]:
      Oi would 'a' helped him jest the same afther that swap an' moore, fur he wuz good stuff, but he must nades shoot at me that noight as I come home wit the wad, so av coorse--" "I wish ye had a Dog now," said the farmer in the new tone of a new subject; "tramps is a nuisance at all toimes, an' a Dog is the best med'cine for them.

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