Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The older plural of
child .
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- noun obsolete, dialectical Plural form of
child .
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Examples
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She had meant only to point the way, but, following a new impulse, she went on, listening to the poor soul's motherly prattle about "me baby" and the "throuble" it was to "find clothes for the growin 'childer when me man is out av work and the bit and sup inconvaynient these hard times" as they descended to that darksome lower world where necessities take refuge when luxuries crowd them out from the gayer place above.
Rose in Bloom 1876
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Somewhere, some time, Jervis had sent ill-prepared "childer" out of his hands to fight - and die - and the wounds were with him still.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Somewhere, some time, Jervis had sent ill-prepared "childer" out of his hands to fight - and die - and the wounds were with him still.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Thaa wor awlus fond o 'childer', bud they'd never let thee alone.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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Paddy's manner throughout had been set to the one idea, not to frighten the "childer"; the weather had backed him up.
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Eternal summer, broken by torrential rains, and occasionally a storm, that was the climate of the island; still, the "childer" couldn't go about with nothing on.
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He stood with his hands in his pockets and his pipe in his mouth watching and criticising the game, pleased that the "childer" were amused.
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Twilight hovered over them; Kate had cuddled her beloved "childer" into their beds in the wagon and the captain had come around to kiss them good-night.
Sunset Pass or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land Charles King 1888
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"Th 'childer's come hooam to ther dinner an' they're all waitin '."
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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"Th 'childer's noisy," or "th 'wife's quiet," an 'noa matter what's done for him it's all wrang.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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