'ere

adv — 2 senses

'ere

adv
1

UK, Dialectal, Pronunciation spelling, Slang Pronunciation spelling of here.

  • “’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. […]”1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, page 214:
  • Good winds blow through this ol' port. Right filthy as it is, dreams still come true ’ere2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:

'ere

adv
1

UK, Dialectal, Pronunciation spelling, Slang Pronunciation spelling of there.

  • ‘He’s a queer customer, the vun-eyed vun, sir,’ observed Mr. Weller, as he led the way. ‘He’s a-gammonin’ that ‘ere landlord, he is, sir, till he don’t rightly know wether he’s a-standing on the soles of his boots or the crown of his hat.’1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

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