Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal contraction of the word ‘brother’ in use among the negroes of the southern United States: as, brer Fox, brer Rabbit, etc.
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Examples
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In the mean time "brer" Gardiner had been turning and twisting like a man who was suffering from what is popularly known as a pain-in-the stomach.
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Unlike brer rabbit the poor are not smart enough to know that the brier patch is the safest place for them.
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And there was brer Cyril swearing that Water was safe as houses.
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'He opened wan o' the windaes, so Jai McGinty's big brer goes: "Get that shut" - an 'Ash done it!'
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And thus he chastith his body with thorne and brer.
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When I was younger than she is, my Aunt Annie Bulloch, of Georgia, used to tell me some of the brer rabbit stories, especially brer rabbit and the tar baby.
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But fond though I am of the brer rabbit stories I think I am even fonder of your other writings.
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When I was younger than she is, my Aunt Annie Bulloch, of Georgia, used to tell me some of the brer rabbit stories, especially brer rabbit and the tar baby.
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But fond though I am of the brer rabbit stories I think I am even fonder of your other writings.
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"Why don't you talk to me, mistah?" the darkey said; "you looks jes 'like my poor brer John, who is done dead."
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