Lexicographical Neighbors of Newsing
Literary usage of Newsing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"I was never one for so much neighbouring and newsing. NESH, adj. -Soft, tender,
delicate. He's a nesh sort of chap. She's rather nesh, she can't stand agen ..."
2. Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States: Embracing the by United States, William Adams Richardson (1881)
"... Statutes not to bo published in newsing except request to return. 5. Rates of
postage on newspapers and ..."
3. A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect, in Three Parts by Mary Reynolds Palmer, James Frederick Palmer (1837)
"In Somersetshire Nestle-tripe signifies the weakest bird of a brood. newsing, part.
pres. the common phrase for gossiping. ..."
4. The Churchman's companion (1866)
"I ain't no newsmonger myself, and I don't like newsing, so Jerry and I, us takes
our drop of tea, quiet to ourselves." Half-an-hour passed very rapidly in ..."
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