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English
Adverb
nebber (not comparable)
- Pronunciation spelling of never, imitating an African-American accent.
1851, Unknown, Whig Against Tory:You no trudge so--you nebber get tere.
1867, Lydia Maria Francis Child, A Romance of the Republic:"Yer see, Missis," said Tom, with a sly look, "dey tinks de niggers don't none ob 'em wants dare freedom, so dey nebber totes 'em whar it be."
1899, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and:I 'spec's ter haf ter suppo't 'im w'en I fin' 'im, fer he nebber would work 'less'n he had ter.
1897, Mabel Osgood Wright, Elliott Coues, Citizen Bird:Sho, now! come to t'ink o' Sambo, he didn't nebber like Mockers, a'ter one time he 'spicioned a Mocker tole tales on him.
1902, Robert W. Chambers, The Maid-At-Arms:An' she 'low ain' nebber wore no ring.
1905, Alice Hegan Rice, Sandy:Dey calls it 'Who'd 'a' Thought It,' 'ca'se you nebber would 'a' thought of puttin' a house dere.
1918, Alice Hegan Rice, Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories:I done worked on lizards in de laigs, but I nebber had no 'casion to treat a cricket in de laig.
1919, O. Henry, Rolling Stones:Cindy done paid out de last quarter fer dis bottle of physic, and it nebber come to no use."