heer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of heer
1400–50; late Middle English ( Scots ) her ( e ), apparently to be identified with hair ( e ) hair
Example Sentences
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Some Yumans heer me speeking Yuman so gud they give me some Chiken, and I sit rite at there Table.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2017
And in time, so many werds came threw my ears and into my brane, that, if I thought upon them, cud understand Yuman prety gud, if I heer it!
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2017
Tam Lin had marked the route with a red pen and added comments using his own creative spelling, such as Ratlesnakes heer and Saw bare under tree.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
“Than shewed he him the litel erthe, that heer is, At regard of the hevenes quantite; And after shewed he him the nyne speres.”
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
Not a bein' o' yo'-all darst lift a han' t' harm the revenuer—not a han', yo' heer?
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
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