ker-

1. an unstressed syllable prefixed to onomatopoeic and other expressive words, usually forming adverbs or interjections:

   kerflop; kerplunk; ker-splosh.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ker-¹

Perhaps from Scots dialect car-, cur-, currie- (as in carfuffle, carwhuffle “to disarrange,” carnaptious “irritable,” curriebuction “a confused gathering, etc.”), based on car, earlier ker “left (hand or side),” from Scots Gaelic cearr “wrong, awkward, left-handed” (compare Middle Irish cerr “crooked, maimed”); variants without r probably reflect forms in r -less dialects

Example Sentences

We watched the f--ker come, inch by inch,” she said, “but not a single work of art was lost.

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Badass Motherf**ker Samuel L. Jackson has given voice to the audio book version.

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An' so when I went courtin' m' third wife, I took a stitch in time an' told her about the camphor an' ker'sene an' lard.

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I stay here lit-tle longer, and then I get wick-ker from Dafydd Dafis, and mend chairs, like my mother.

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The emphatic ker-blim of a rifle a hundred yards off furnished a vocal exclamation point to further accent the comment.

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I war jes agwine to de house wen I see dese yer hosses comin ker-blip!

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Coliko coliko saulo we Apopli to the farming ker Will wel and mang him mullo, Will wel and mang his truppo.

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