Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nearer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Nearer.
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- interjection slang, childish An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image.
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I hain't got no ill-will gin Marse Desmit, not a mite -- only 'bout dat ar lickin, an 'dat ain't nuffin now; but I ain't gwine ter war his name ner giv it ter my chillen ter mind 'em dat der daddy wuz jes anudder man's critter
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Desmit, not a mite -- only 'bout dat ar lickin, an 'dat ain't nuffin now; but I ain't gwine ter war his name ner giv it ter my chillen ter mind 'em dat der daddy wuz jes anudder man's critter one time.
Bricks Without Straw Albion Winegar Tourg��e 1871
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Dey sed he used ter say ez how he wasn't gwine ter hev his niggers mixed up wid nobody else's namin ', an' he wouldn't no mo '' low ob one black feller callin 'ob anuder by enny nickname ner nothin' ub dat kine, on one o 'his plantations, dan he would ob his takin' a mule, nary bit.
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Dey sed he used ter say ez how he wasn't gwine ter hey his niggers mixed up wid nobody else's namin ', an' he wouldn't no mo '' low ob one black feller callin 'ob anudder by enny nickname ner nothin' ub dat kine, on one o 'his plantations, dan he would ob his takin'
Bricks Without Straw Albion Winegar Tourg��e 1871
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They placed me in a pris'ner's dock and then commenced on me.
Flora Stookey/Travers/Mezzetti 1963
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In the Bible the word "ner" (נר) -- candle or light, embodied, of course, in the word Menorah (מנורה) -- is used metaphorically in many significant senses.
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Hamilton, lemme interduce you -- fren 'the family -- ole fren' the guv'ner's -- works in the yards.
The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923
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But then they won't lemme sleep there -- guv'ner's orders, by Harry -- home every night, sir!
The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923
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Guv'ner says so hisself, an 'the guv'ner knows -- the guv'ner's got a head for business, you bet!
The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923
ruzuzu commented on the word ner
Wiktionary says this is "An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant."
June 23, 2011
yarb commented on the word ner
Yes indeed: as in ner ner ni ner ner.
June 23, 2011