Meanings
adverbhyar (not comparable)
- dialectalnot comparablehere
Who CALL me? Listen down de ribber, Dinah! Don’t you hyar Somebody holl’in’ “Hoo, Jim, hoo?” My Sarah died las’ y’ar; IS dat black angel done come back to call ole Jim f’om hyar?
1875, Sidney Lanier, The Power of Prayer
verb
- dialectalhear
Who CALL me? Listen down de ribber, Dinah! Don’t you hyar Somebody holl’in’ “Hoo, Jim, hoo?” My Sarah died las’ y’ar; IS dat black angel done come back to call ole Jim f’om hyar?
1875, Sidney Lanier, The Power of Prayer
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