MORNING
ADJECTIVES
1596 — RATHE early in the day; belonging to the morning → Eng. dial. & poetic usage
1858 — MATUTINARY occurring or performed in the morning, early
NOUNS
..971— UGHTEN the part of the night immediately before daybreak; early morning → obs.
1300 — PRIME the early morning; the period between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m.; a point at the beginning or end of this period; the time just after sunrise → obs.
1300 — PRIMETIDE the time of prime, early morning → obs.
1591 — LAST MORNING yesterday morning → obs.
1746 — CANDLE-DOUTING morning, dawn → Eng. dial.
1824 — NEB of the air: chilliness; the sharp tang of early morning → Sc.
1859 — MAIDS ADORNING the morning → rhyming sl.
1886 — BLUE O’CLOCK just before dawn; very early in the morning
1886 — SPARROW-FART — SPARROW-FARTS break of day, very early morning → Eng. dial.
1890 — ACK EMMA the morning → Brit. sl., orig. military
1900 — DAY-LIGHTENING morning, twilight, daybreak → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..20C — GIPSY’S WARNING — GYPSY’S WARNING morning; also as ‘good morning’ → rhyming sl.
..20C — KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN the morning → rhyming sl.
1902 — CHICKEN HOLLERING TIME dawn, early morning → Amer. dial.
1902 — QUARTERING TIME the middle of the morning or evening; the hour completely a quarter of a day → Amer. dial.
1906 — CHICKEN CROWING TIME dawn, early morning → Amer. dial.
1911 — SOUR MORNING a morning with bad weather → Amer. dial.
1930 — CHICKEN CROW dawn, early morning → Amer. dial.
1930 — EARLY BEAM — EARLY BEAMS dawn, the early morning → African-American sl.
1940 — EARLY BRIGHT the early morning → African-American sl.
1959 — ZERO-DARK-THIRTY very early in the morning → US
1960 — DAYS A-DAWNING — DAY’S DAWNING morning → UK rhyming sl.
1980 — O-DARK-THIRTY the wee hours of the morning, before or roughly at dawn → US military sl.
1982 — O-DARK-HUNDRED the wee hours of the morning, before or roughly at dawn → US military sl.
PHRASES
1894 — FAIR-GUID-DAY good morning → Sc.
VERBS
1892 — BID THE TIME OF DAY to wish good-morning → Eng. dial.
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