Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of dyer.

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Examples

  • I hope deyer well, Brer Bull-frog, kaze dis day you got some bizness wid me w'at'll las 'you a mighty long time.'

    Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

  • Some folks wanter make out deyer frogs, yit I wish dey p'int out unter me how frogs kin holler so dat de nigher you come t'um, de furder you is off; I be mighty glad ef some un 'ud come 'long en tell me dat.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Keep yo 'head studdy, now; mine yo' eye; I ain't sayin 'deyer any boogers anywhars.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Let 'lone dat, ef I keep on gittin' skeerder en skeerder, you better gimme room, 'kaze ef I can't git' way fum dar somebody gwine ter git hurted, en deyer gwine ter git hurted bad.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Deyer dat ripe, 'sez ole Brer Rabbit, sezee,' dat dey look like deyer done melt tergedder, en I speck you'll fine um full er bugs, but you kin take dat fine bushy tail er yone, Brer Fox, 'sezee,' en bresh dem bugs away. '

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Ef I beats you dis time den de fish, deyer mine; ef I gits beated, den we kin take 'n'er trial.'

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Some did en some didn't, en dem w'at did, dey look like deyer mighty fergitful.

    Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Dey kin walk biggity, en dey kin talk biggity, en mo'n dat, dey kin feel biggity, but yit all de same deyer gwine ter git kotch up wid.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • W'en you en me en dish yer chile yer wants 'simmons, we goes out en shakes de tree, en ef deyer good en ripe, down dey comes, en ef deyer good en green, dar dey stays.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Deze yer gooses, "he continued, wiping the crumbs from his beard with his coat-tail," is mighty kuse fowls; deyer mighty kuse.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

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