emothee

• emotee

Derived from Middle English emot, from Old English ǣmete, from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā.

• IPA^(key): /ɛmɔˈtiː/

emothee (plural emothes)

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   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:

     An broughet ee stell, ing a emothee knaghane.

     And broke the handle in a pismire-hill.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 12, page 88:

     Oore joys all ee-smort ing a emothee knaghane.

     Our joys are all smothered in a pismire-hill.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 13, page 90:

     Twish thee an Tommeen, an ee emothee knaghane.

     Betwixt you and Tommy and the pismire-hill.

• 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 38