good morrow

alternative good-morrow · alternative goodmorrow

1. archaicGood morning.

   "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."

   1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC

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   Creſ[ſida]. Good morrow vncle Pandarus. Pan[darus]. Good morrow cozen Creſſid: what doe you talke of? good morrow, Alexander: how doe you cozen? when were you at Ilium?

   c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

   Good Morrow, Neighbour; good Morrow, Neighbour Cloggit; How do's all at your Houſe this Morning?

   1705, [John Vanbrugh], The Confederacy. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1

   Good morrow! / Name's Walter. I do a bit of maintenance here and there on ol' bessie. […]

   2023 October 26, Anders Grube Jensen, Peaks of Yore, TraipseWare, scene: Approaching to Walter, level/area: Old Mill

plural good morrows · alternative good-morrow · alternative goodmorrow

1. archaicA greeting consisting of the interjection.
2. obsoleteRiverhemp, sesban.

   Among the plants and shrubs that I saw, and could form any knowledge of, were the sisban, or large thorny sensitive plant, sometimes called the good-morrow, these are abundant among the underwoods.

   1797, Joseph Hawkins of New York, A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa: and travels into the interior of that country, [A book https://www.jstor.org/stable/3172055] questioned to be a hoax, first Edition in Philadelphia page 133 and two editions in Troy by Luther Pratt page 133