n'eer
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Yola
[edit]Adverb
[edit]n'eer
- Alternative form of near (“never”)
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 84:
- Chote well aar aim was t'yie ouz n'eer a blowe.
- I saw (well) their intent was to give us ne'er a stroke.
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 84