whare
Britishnoun
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a Māori hut or dwelling place
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any simple dwelling place, esp at a beach or in the bush
Etymology
Origin of whare
from Māori
Example Sentences
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Your neghbors in the country, whare you come from, hain't fergot!—
From Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley
Goith to the feild withouten vordis more; So was he vare whare that there cam before, 32 O manly man he was in to al thing, 1064 And clepit was the ferſt-conquest king.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
"O whare was ye, my gude grey steed, 30 That I coft ye sae dear; That ye didna waken your master, Whan ye ken'd that his love was here."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
"O wae is me, my lord," she says, "To hear you say sic wrang;150 It can be nane but your auld lemman; God rede whare she will gang!"
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
I'm Ohio-born—right whare People's all called 'Buckeyes' thare— 'Cause, I s'pose, our buckeye crap's Biggest in the world, perhaps!—
From Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley
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