Lexicographical Neighbors of Newsed
Literary usage of Newsed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"A fanciful and licentious fabrication, perhaps never used at all seriously. News.
To tell as news. Ex. 'It was newted at market yesterday.' *newsed. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"NEW-LAND. Land newly broken up and ploughed. Kent. newsed. Reported; published.
East. NEWST-ONE. Much the ваше. ..."
3. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"E. and among other authorities may be mentioned Cavendish's Life of Cardinal Wolsey.
NEWS, u. to tell as news. Ex. " It was newsed at market yesterday. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use by William Douglas Parish (1875)
"NETTLE-SPRING. The nettle-rash. NETT-UP. Exhausted with cold. NEWS. To tell
anything as news. "It was newsed about. ..."
5. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1903)
"It seemed the mighty breath of God Came sweeping up from the horizon, And gusts
of fury newsed abroad, That Providence turned Amazon. ..."
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