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  • verb Present participle of foller.

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Examples

  • December 17, 2007 at 7:44 am wuz tehy rowling stownes albums? mebbe he thot he wuz follering direkshuns!

    PWN3D!!1! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • Me doing the sawdusty reglar, and follering swells on the stump!

    Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

  • "Women, that whole funeral meeting kotch its breath at them awful words, and sot there rooted and grounded; and she turnt and looked around defiant-like with them sightless eyes, and strode off down the hill, John and Marthy follering."

    Sight to the Blind Lucy Furman

  • CHARLES was as brave as he was fare, and, having hired his fust Second for twenty-five francs, and made a few other erangements, he met his hantigginest on the dedly field on the follering day at the hunerthly hour of six hay hem.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 Various

  • He jest go to de lead row and tell Sandy to go wid him, and start toward de woods along Bois d 'Arc Creek wid Sandy follering behind.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

  • "Well!" she said, gaily, "be you a-follering of me, or be I a - follering of you?"

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • He sits up in his bunk, swaddled in Annie Black's bandages, and through slits between his frost bites, he moults the follering rhetoric:

    Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • But jest as Sam, who was follering along behind with that suit case, picks it up and puts it on his head agin, they come a sound, from away off in the distance somewheres, that made him set it down quick.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

  • It must of been one of the Grand Army of the Republicans, fur they was some of the old soldiers in buggies riding along behind, and a big string of people follering in more buggies and some on foot.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

  • I made a long half-circle around them burning buildings, keeping in the dark, fur people was coming out in bunches, now that it was all over with, watching them fires burning, and talking excited, and saying the riders should be follered -- only not follering.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

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