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English
Verb
’ad
- (British, dialectal or slang) Aphetic form of had.
1933 January 9, George Orwell , chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz , →OCLC, pages 214–215:“’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That's seven bob.”
Anagrams
Irish
Pronunciation
Pronoun
’ad (emphatic ’adsa)
- Connacht form of agat
References
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), Erster Band: Grammatik , Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 194
- ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath , section 298, page 141
- ^ de Búrca, Seán (1958) The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 403.15, page 84