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Ler

[ ler ]

noun

, Irish Mythology.
  1. the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.


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Example Sentences

During a recent show, he referred to someone in his script named “Ferris Boo-ler.”

Both have even been known to pronounce the word nuclear in the same Southern way (nuke-yuh-ler).

They was both kind o' mad at the hull world, and at our town in pertic'ler, and some at each other, too.

He had made his life-long brags, and his pride was broke in that there one pertic'ler spot.

And they all had them easy-going, wait-a-bit kind of voices, and didn't see no pertic'ler importance in their "r's."

He stuck his cigarette into his mouth and turned sideways from Doctor Kirby, like he hadn't noticed him pertic'ler.

Cap'n N-n-(hic)oohaul (this cost prodigious effort and much balancing), an'—an' you sherv'd that f'ler per-per-flicky ri'.

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