mar
verb (used with object)
to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil.
marrer
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a word derived from
mar.
Example Sentences
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I was chilled and wet through to the marrer, so I started to make me a fire; And then I says: "No; 'ere, Goblimy, it'll do for a cross for Joe."
From Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
"That's yer own flesh an' blood a-callin' yer, Joe," cried Mrs Yabsley, in ecstasy—"the sweetest cry on Gawd's earth, for it goes to yer very marrer."
From Jonah by Louis Stone
The E. G. You can purr 'em all down t' me—it don' marrer!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
It's enough to put new marrer in old bones, this weather.
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by James A. Cooper
Now, Scraggsy here has been master so long that the juice of authority has sorter soaked into his marrer bones.
From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant
