Et
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Verb
- (colloquial or dialectal)
et
(past of eat) - 1896: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Tom Sawyer, Detective http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=638956722&textreg=2&query=+he+et&id=TwaDeteWell, the man was astonished, of course; and first off he looked like he didn't know whether to be scared, or glad, or both, or which, but finally he settled down to being glad; and then his color come back, though at first his face had turned pretty white. So we got to talking together while he et his breakfast.
- 1907: O. Henry, Seats of the Haughty http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Seats_of_the_Haughty'Boss,' says the cabby, 'I et a steak in that restaurant once. If you're real hungry, I advise you to try the saddle-shops first.'
- 1919: Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Long-Distance Call From JimWell, I don't care if he does! I can remember the time when he et a good old-fashioned supper. And it's awful silly to call it dinner. 'Breakfast, dinner and supper, created He them.' I believe I could find them very words in the Bible if I set out to hunt.
- 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit:Yer can't expect folk to stop here for ever just to be et by you and Bert.
- 18 February 1946, Life magazine, Pepto-Bismol for upset stomach advertisementIt must have been somethin’ I et! majuscule/minuscule and line-breaks sic : IT MUST
HAVE BEEN
somethin’
I ET! - 1996, Dana Lyons, "Cows with Guns":They eat to grow, grow to die
Die to be et at the hamburger fry - 2001, Richard Williams, The Animator's Survival Kit, page 220:Something I et? majuscule/minuscule and line-breaks sic : SOMETHING I ET?
OR
HAD A DRINK?