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prythee

prythee is the alternative spelling of prithee.

Meaning of prithee

Interjection

  1. (archaic) please; used to make a question or request more polite or more forceful.
    • What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about prythee

What is prythee the alternative spelling of?
Prythee is the alternative spelling of prithee.

Words near prythee in the dictionary

  1. prytanes
  2. prytaneum
  3. prytanies
  4. prytanis
  5. prytany
  6. prythee
  7. Prytula
  8. pryuely
  9. pryvate
  10. Pryvillia
  11. Przasnysz

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prythee (page history and authors); prithee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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