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.
Unwritten History 1919
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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.
Errors of Enchantment » Catholic Social Teaching = Bad Economics 2009
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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!'
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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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.
Letters to His Children Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1919
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But fond though I am of the brer rabbit stories I think I am even fonder of your other writings.
Letters to His Children Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1919
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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."
My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914
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