'arf
Origin
A representation of the pronunciation of half by a speaker whose dialect is non-rhotic and also lacks the Voiceless glottal fricative ().
Full definition of 'arf
Noun
'arf
- (British) Eye dialect of half
- 1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, Round the Red Lamp:'Arf the night through he's at that game, the silly old juggins.
- 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes:Hasn't ye 'eard that devil's spawn of a capting an' is mates knockin' the bloomin' lights outen 'arf the crew?