'clare

• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

'clare (third-person singular simple present 'clares, present participle 'claring, simple past and past participle 'clared)

1. Pronunciation spelling of declare, representing African-American Vernacular English.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 107:

     “Tea Cake, Ah ’clare Ah don’t know whut tuh make outa you. You’se so crazy.

• Carle, Clear, Caler, Carel, carle, recal, clear, lacer