good-evening

See also: good evening

English

Interjection

good-evening

1. Dated form of good evening.
   • 1843 February 23, “The Tory Lover”, in Madison City Express, number 50, Madison, Wis.: […] William W. Wyman, front page, column 3:

     Instead of passing the house towards the town, he turned up to the door and rode toward her. She was too familiar with the scenes of danger, and the incidents of those warlike times to feel alarm, and waited quietly his approach to the door-stone. / “Good-evening, maiden,” he said with a foreign accent; “I pray you give me your hospitality a brief space—I and my horse are both wounded, and he will carry me no farther, I fear.”

   • 1892, “Hudden and Dudden and Donald O’Neary”, in Joseph Jacobs, compiler, Celtic Fairy Tales, London: David Nutt, […], page 49:

     Well, the long and the short of it was that Donald let the hide go, and, that very evening, who but he should walk up to Hudden’s door? / “Good-evening, Hudden. Will you lend me your best pair of scales?”

   • 1966, Nina Bawden, The White Horse Gang, London: Puffin Books, published 1972, page 52:

     Abe’s Gran was standing in the doorway. ‘Good-evening,’ she said. She was holding a tin mug in each hand. / ‘Good-evening, Mrs Tanner,’ Sam said.