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  • preposition Eye dialect spelling of after.

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Examples

  • Maybe Bush will be born again afther the Red States wise up to Bush.

    Think Progress » “If the freedom of the press makes some Americans uneasy, 2006

  • He nivver s'id another word afther that to me as long as he remained aboard, nor did Madame trouble me very much more wid her attenshions.

    The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

  • "It 's hard enough to leave him widout him comin 'afther me and breakin' me heart all over again."

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • It ain't often annybody comes home to it, but 't will be a great day then, and the poor old folks 'll all be calling afther me:' Where's

    The Queen's Twin and Other Stories Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

  • And you too, "he proceeded, turning to the other bed;" here is him that among them all I loved the best; my youngest, an 'called afther myself -- may my blessin' an 'the blessin' of God and my Saviour rest upon you, my darlin 'son; an' if

    The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

  • He knew it was the Pooka bekase it shpake to him like a Christian mortial, only it isn’t agrayble in its language an’ ’ull niver give ye a dacint word afther ye’re on its back, an’ sometimes not before aither.

    Irish Wonders 1878

  • Finn the way she did, the lape she tuk made the place be called afther her an’ that’s razon enough.

    Irish Wonders 1878

  • Dinnis,’ fur, ye see, the widdys always do spake that-a-way av their husbands, a-givin’ thim the good word afther they’re dead, so as to make up fur the tongue lashin’s they give ’em whin they’re alive.

    Irish Wonders 1878

  • "The little divil that stole the dog-team an 'wint over the Pass in the dead o' winter for to see where the world come to an ind on the ither side, just because old Matt McCarthy was afther tellin 'her fairy stories?"

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • Joe Lieberman made it a three horserace in Connecticut afther the party backstabbing and WON.

    Lieberman increases criticism of Barack Obama 2008

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