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English
Preposition
f'r
- Pronunciation spelling of for.
1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter LXI, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company , published 1872, →OCLC, page 442:The minute we’d tetch off a blast ’n’ the fuse’d begin to sizzle, he’d give a look as much as to say: ‘Well, I’ll have to git you to excuse me,’ an’ it was surpris’n’ the way he’d shin out of that hole ’n’ go f’r a tree.
1898, F[inley] P[eter] D[unne], “On Golf”, in Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, section “Mr. Dooley in Peace”, page 251:If ye bring ye’er wife f’r to see th’ game, an’ she has her name in th’ paper, that counts ye wan.
1905 September, “The Crutch”, in Book of the Royal Blue, volume VIII, number 12, Baltimore, Md., page 24, column 2:I was up to th’ hospital f’r weeks an’ weeks an’ weeks, an’ I was there on a bed, an’ by me on ’nother bed was a big man who had been blew up by a ’splosion somewhere.
Related terms
Jersey Dutch
Etymology
From Dutch voor, from Middle Dutch vore, voor, from Old Dutch fora, fore, from Proto-Germanic *furai.
Pronunciation
Preposition
f'r
- for
- before
- in front of
Alternative forms