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arter
arter
See also: ärter
English
Preposition
arter
- Eye dialect spelling of after.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, chapter 3,
- His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a-pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night.
- Id., chapter 39,
- It was the money left me, and the gains of the first few year wot I sent home to Mr. Jaggers - all for you - when he first come arter you, agreeable to my letter.
- 2000, Alexander Kent, Colours Aloft!, McBooks Press, ISBN 0935526722, page 115,
- "Is he asleep at last?"...
- "Aye, sir. So 'e should, arter what I put in 'is Madeira!"
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, chapter 3,