'arf

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Half. British, Cockney, especially

    "'Arf the night through he's at that game, the silly old juggins."

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allotmentallowancebig endbigger halfbipartitionbisect

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"'Arf the night through he's at that game, the silly old juggins."

Etymology

A representation of the pronunciation of half by a speaker whose dialect is non-rhotic and also lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).

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