fer instance
noun1
Nonstandard, Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of for instance (“example”).
- LIkewise, the dictates of economy prevent private firms from maintaining any but records essential to their relations with the tax collector. To give you a 'fer instance'; North American Aviation inherited, as successor company, the photo files of Fokker Aircraft Co., later General Aviation Corp., and Berliner-Joyce Co.1958, American Aviation Historical Society Journal, page 51:
- “Who else?” / Lila frowned. “Well, there’s Bob Godwin, just a fer instance, though you don’t need to go tellin’ him I said so.[…]”2000, Susan Wittig Albert, Mistletoe Man, Berkley Prime Crime, published 2001, →ISBN:
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- “[…] You get a call, you go out, ask some questions, figure out why. Sometimes it’s easy. Guy robs a convenience store, shot the clerk.” Sam scratched his head. “Actually, don’t think we’ve had one of those around here. ’Least not while I was on the job. But that’s just a fer instance.[…]”2004, Parnell Hall, And a Puzzle to Die On (The Puzzle Lady Mysteries), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Dell, →ISBN, page 127:
- “What if the natives are doing them in?” asked Oran. “Hells, maybe they’re cannibals. Or maybe they feed them to their god, the jaw fish?” / “Heathen sacrifice!” exclaimed the preacher. “It could be going on right under our noses.” The Preacher Mock was amused by his outburst, but he managed to keep a smile off his face. / “Oh, jeez,” scolded Fron. “Oran is just givin’ us a fer instance. You gets too carried away.”2010, W. R. Hagen, Under the Blue Sun, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 62:
- Maybe not let him poke around at the Lodge and ask a lot of specifics, but maybe just offer them some “fer instances”; start them down the right track.2011, Steve Amick, “Not Even Lions and Tigers”, in Keith Taylor, Laura Kasischke, editors, Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them, Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:
- “Jim, let me give you a fer instance, imagine hordes of vicious scorpions and rattle snakes with wings and that is exactly what you guys are dealing with. America does not yet realize the hell that has been unleashed.”2012, Al Vasquez, A Sniper’s Trail, Windmills International Editions, Inc., →ISBN, pages 82–83: