• 'arf

    Origin

    A representation of the pronunciation of half by a speaker whose dialect is non-rhotic and also lacks the Voiceless glottal fricative ().

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    Noun

    'arf

    1. (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?

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