yestreen

[ ye-streen ]

/ yɛˈstrin /

Scot. and North England

yesterday evening; last evening.

during yesterday evening.

Origin of yestreen

1325–75; Middle English. See yester-, even²

yestern, yesternight, yesternoon, yesterweek, yesteryear, yestreen, yet, yeti, yett, yetta, yettie

Yestreen I saw a ship go forth When the wind blew merry from the north.

Poems by the Way |William Morris
“Ou, just yestreen, after tey-time—afore ye cam hame yoursell galloping sae fast,” said old Joseph.

St. Ronan's Well |Sir Walter Scott
I was keepin' some bonnie berries for ye that the maister gied me yestreen; but maybe ye wouldna min' if I gied them to Kirsty?

Morag |Janet Milne Rae
There was something to be sortit an' he took her there yestreen.

Johnstone of the Border |Harold Bindloss

Why, the son of the poor woman who cried beneath your kind master's window the night before yestreen'.

The Black Douglas |S. R. Crockett

yestreen

/ (jɛˈstriːn) /

Scot yesterday evening

C14: from yest ( e) r- + e ( v) en ²