Good-morning
Full definition of good-morning
Noun
good-morning
(plural good-mornings)- Alternative form of en.
- 1883, w, Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters Chapter Bob White, the Game Bird of America, But if they are greeted with the sunrise and good weather, they cheep a good-morning to one another in soft, cheerful voices, and go at once to their feeding-grounds, where they regale themselves on the wheat of the stubbles, the buckwheat, the seeds of grasses, and the rag-weed, and on the berries of the haw, the gum, and the chicken-grape.
- 1994, Marian Devon, Lord Harlequin Chapter 14, She was just helping herself to kidneys at the sideboard, however, when Lady Lavinia entered. It was all she could do to suppress a sigh. Her good-morning was not entirely free of embarrassment.
- 2016, w:Frederic S. Durbin, A Green and Ancient Light, Once we’d said our good-mornings, I asked if he’d been to the screaming mouth.
Verb
- (ambitransitive) To say good morning (to someone).
- Tolkien Hobbit|edition=revised|page=19|passage=“Good morning!” he said at last. “We don’t want any adventures here, thank you!” By this he meant that the conversation was at an end.
“What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!” said Gandalf. “Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, ... And you do know my name, though you don’t remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! To think that I should have lived to be good-morninged by Beladonna Took’s son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!” - 1941, w:Eric Knight, Post Stories of 1941 Chapter The Yorkshire Man Flies Again, After breakfast this lad came in and said “Heil Hitler” and “Good morning.” Sam heiled Hitler and good-morninged right back, and the chap opened a portfolio and put down a lot of letters for Sam to sign.
- Adams Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul|pages=83–84|pageref=83|passage=The orderly arrived promptly in his well-pressed loose green tunic, good-morninged cheerfully, and bustled around locating bedroom slippers and dressing gown.
Interjection
- 1808, Noah Bisbee, The History of the Falcos. A Comedy, in Four Acts., Sturnus Corvus, and Caius Alaudus. Good-morning, gentlemen.
Gallinarius Falco and Caius Graculus. Good-morning.
Caius Alaudus. Good-morning monsieur Falco.
Gallinarius Falco. Good-morning, you little fawning, meeching, creeping, sneaking, stinking puppy-dog. - Twain Innocents Abroad|chapter=III|pages=33–34|pageref=33|passage=“Good-morning, Sir. It is a fine day.” ... “Good-morning, Sir. It is a fine day for pleasuring.”
- 1872, Through William Penn’s ‘Low Counties’, He would always say, with grave cheer, ‘Good-morning, madam!’ to which Mary would reply, with her pure Quaker simplicity, ‘Art thou well, George?’ and pass on, to spread her napkined butter and cheeses in the quaint, breezy colonnades which you remember on Market street.