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- Dictionaryprithee/ˈprɪði/
exclamation
- 1. please (used to convey a polite request): archaic "prithee, Jack, answer me honestly"
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Prithee is an archaic English interjection formed from a corruption of the phrase pray thee ([I] ask you [to]), which was initially an exclamation of contempt used to indicate a subject's triviality. The earliest recorded appearance of the word prithee listed in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1577, while it is most commonly found in works from the seventeenth century. The contraction is a f... Wikipedia