Arter

name, prep

name, prep ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Preposition
  1. 1
    Pronunciation spelling of after. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    ""[…]His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a-pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night.[…]""

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

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"“Now ef ye alls don’t quit fussin’, I’ll set the boogers arter ye ter-night,” which was a dire and telling threat, for, to the mountain children, “boogers” meant ghosts, witches, hobgoblins, thieves, or any other terrible, mysterious creature of the night."

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