Evening. God ye good den!—i.e. God (give) ye good evening. This is the final d of good joined to the “en,” a contraction of evening.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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