fer
prepalso spelled FERunstressed /fə(ɹ)/
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British, Southern, Dialectal, Especially, Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of for.
- “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
- This mornin’ she rails out at me fer dunkin’ my cooky and she says COFFEE IS FER SIPPIN’ AND NOT FER SAUCERIN’ . . .1957 January 18, Sally, quoting a villager, “For Ladies Only …”, in Mt. Vernon Register-News, volume XXXVII, number 93, Mount Vernon, Ill., →OCLC, page 7, column 5:
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- ‘Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.’1997, J.K. Rowling, chapter IV, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone:
- Derived terms
- fer instance, gofer, o-fer, threefer, twofer
- Related terms
- attack au fer, fer-de-lance, fer-de-moline, martel de fer, prise de fer