hinner
HINDER, HINTER, HINNER adj rearmost
This word appears in Scots in some interesting combinations which are not found in English. For example, it can be used to refer to time. The hinnernicht is last night or the previous night. We find it so used in Allan Ramsay’s The Gentle Shepherd (1725): “I dream’d a dreary Dream this hinder Night, That gars my Flesh a’ creep yet with the Fright”. With an adverbial suffix, it yields hinnerly,...
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