PRITHEE

Definition: PRITHEE

PRITHEE

Interjection

1. A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PRITHEE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Request	Adverb: prithee, do, please, pray; be so good as, be good enough; have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: PRITHEE

English words defined with "PRITHEE": Enclitic ♦ Prythee. (references)

Specialty definitions using "PRITHEE": Cherry Trees and the Cuckoo. (references)

Author	Quotation
Colley Cibber	Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Nay, I prithee, stay a little.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"PRITHEE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRITHEE" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

Language		Translations for "PRITHEE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		bitten (appeal, ask, ask for, ask request, beg, beseech, bid, invite, petition, petitions, plead, pleading, request, solicit, solicitation, Sue, to ask request, to please, to request). (various references)

Greek		σε ικετεύω. (various references)

Hungarian		legyen szíves (be good enough to, be so good as to), könyörgöm, kérem (hold on!, please attend!, please breathe on me), esdve kérlek, az isten szerelmére (for god's sake). (various references)

Manx		my sailt. (various references)

Pig Latin		itheepray

Russian		of I pray thee, прошу, пожалуйста (if you please, please, would you please, you are welcome). (various references)

Spanish		por favor (please, turn it up). (various references)

Welsh		atolwg. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	sodes. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Words rhyming with "PRITHEE" (pronounced 'Prith"ee'): Coachee, Prythee, Quashee, Ramee. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: either, threep.
	-2 letters: ether, ither, peter, retie, their, there, three, thrip, tripe.
	-3 letters: heir, here, hire, peer, peri, pert, pier, pith, pree, rete, ripe, rite, thee, thir, tier, tire, tree, trip.
	-4 letters: ere, eth, hep, her, het, hie, hip, hit, ire, pee, peh, per, pet, phi, pht, pie, pit, ree, rei, rep, ret, rip.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: hemipter, herpetic, nephrite, tephrite, trephine.
	+2 letters: hemipters, nephrites, philtered, phrenetic, spheriest, tephrites, therapies, threeping, trephined, trephines.
	+3 letters: antiherpes, aphaeretic, ciphertext, epistrophe, eutrophies, externship, helicopter, heliotrope, hemipteran, heterophil, interphase, orthoepies, perithecia, permethrin, pinfeather, preachiest, preethical, preheating, sphalerite, spherulite, spirochete, telphering, thermopile.
	+4 letters: champerties, ciphertexts, epistrophes, externships, helicopters, heliotropes, hemipterans, hemipterous, hemoprotein, heptarchies, heterophile, heteroploid, heterotopic, heterotypic, hyperactive, hypermetric, interphases, lectureship, lithosphere, metanephric, metanephroi, nephritides, paperweight, parenthesis, parenthetic, paresthesia, paresthetic, pentarchies, perithecial, perithecium, permethrins, pinfeathers, rehypnotize, sphalerites, spherulites, spirochaete, spirochetes, telegraphic, therapeusis, therapeutic, thermophile, thermopiles, traineeship, trusteeship, whippletree.
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