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verra

British  
/ ˈvɛrə /

adjective

  1. a Scot word for very

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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As for the films that will be shown over the next 10 days, as they say in France: On verra.

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2017

They do be verra rare, they tell me.

From Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds by Silas K. Boone

I am verra curious aboot it, and ye can count on me being a listener whenever ye begin the lessons.

From Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge by Alan Douglas

It's an awfu' peety they're no pairmeetin' ony intoaxicans—naethin' but non-alcohoalic liquors an' sic like, an' the hawm-sawndwiches no verra tender.

From Mr. Punch in the Highlands by Various

They do look extraordinarily small before those great heavy state carriages, rather like rats, as Hubert says—"Quand on verra les nôtres ce sera une surprise," for they are enormous.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

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