noight

English

Etymology

From night.

Noun

noight (plural noights)

1. Pronunciation spelling of night.
   • 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Firm of Girdlestone‎^[1]:

     "Good noight to ye all," and he trotted back into his office with his hat and its silver contents in his hand.

   • 1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell at Yale‎^[2]:

     Oi'd not loike to be in his place this noight!"

   • 1877, Bret Harte, The Story of a Mine‎^[3]:

     For it's meself as hasn't sturred fut out of the store the day and noight,--more betoken as the boys I've sarved kin testify."

   • 1917, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages‎^[4]:

     Oi would 'a' helped him jest the same afther that swap an' moore, fur he wuz good stuff, but he must nades shoot at me that noight as I come home wit the wad, so av coorse--" "I wish ye had a Dog now," said the farmer in the new tone of a new subject; "tramps is a nuisance at all toimes, an' a Dog is the best med'cine for them.

Anagrams

• hoting, thingo