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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal form of
scare .
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Examples
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Uniontown boy slid down Laurel Hill through Uniontown and would have slid on down the pike to Searight's only he was afraid he would 'skeer' somebody's horses.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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One of them, the big or the little giant, as the case may be, is noisy and boastful; he jumps high in the air, strikes his feet together, smites his fists, brags about what he is going to do, and tries hard to 'skeer' the other man.
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913
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'I want no mo' skeer'd dan you is right now, en 'I wuz fixin' fer ter give Mr. Dog a sample er my jaw, 'sezee,' but I'm de most ticklish chap w'at you ever laid eyes on, en no sooner did Mr. Dog put his nose down yer 'mong my ribs dan I got ter laffin, en I laft twel I ain't had no use er my lim's, 'sezee,' en it's a mussy unto Mr. Dog dat I wuz ticklish, kaze a little mo 'en I'd e't' im up, 'sezee.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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'I want no mo' skeer'd dan you is right now, en 'I wuz fixin' fer ter give Mr. Dog a sample er my jaw, 'sezee,' but I'm de most ticklish chap w'at you ever laid eyes on, en no sooner did Mr. Dog put his nose down yer 'mong my ribs dan I got ter laughin ', en I laughed twel I ain't had no use er my lim's,' sezee, 'en it's a mussy unto Mr. Dog dat I wuz ticklish, kaze a little mo' en I'd e't 'im up,' sezee.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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Anti-empiricists who cite idiotic nostrums about “free trade” and how the bad bad regulations skeer away business bore me.
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Oar skeer teh jetlaggedwuns hoo dont see just hao funnee Mais Non can bee wehn she taeks a twip. . .
THIS - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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U better start singing now tu skeer dem aileeyunz away!
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If there were horses still about, I'd prob'ly skeer 'em.
"As was the case with Chavez's tendentious present, Ortega's speech was intended as a slap." Ann Althouse 2009
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Dat offin getz teh chipmonk-chattur wen ai sez in tu hur wen she sharts stawkin wun, or eben taykz tu mush notiss ob wun we has hummerz tu, adn ai dont want hur tu skeer dem away.
PUPPY EYES - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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May 7, 2008 at 4:44 pm skeer um, nawt sekkund, tehn 4givz um!
Marie Catoinette - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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