telfer

[ tel-fer ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

telfer

/ ˈtɛlfə /

When he got home he found Mary Telfer keeping his sister company.

He would now be enabled to confound Telfer, one of the most learned of the Society's members, by the evidence of his spade work.

Telfer said that I ought to have a man with me; one is not supposed to go about here alone; so he detailed a man.

A few yards behind were the wiring party; so I whispered a word or two to Kerr and Telfer.

Not nice to hear Huggo's loud, delighted laughter at everything addressed to him by Telfer.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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