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prithee
[
pri
th
-ee
]
Origin
prith·ee
/
ˈprɪð
i
/
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pri
th
-ee
]
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interjection
Archaic
.
(I) pray thee.
Origin:
1570–80;
by shortening and alteration
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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prithee
(ˈprɪðɪ)
—
interj
archaic
pray thee; please
[C16: shortened from
I pray thee
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
prithee
c.1522, altered from phrase (I) pray thee (see
pray
).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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