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-- The whole howd'ye was about half an hour long; so I happened to misplace two syllables, and was turned off, and rendered incapable.
The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar
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"Oh, howd'ye do, howd'ye do, Cap'n Hunniwell?" stammered Gabriel.
Shavings Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
Gammerstang commented on the word howd'ye
(interjection) - In what state is your health? Used as a compliment of civility or an inquiry into the state of a person's health; of how, do and ye; whence "howdy". --Daniel Fenning's Royal English Dictionary, 1775
April 22, 2018