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- noun
Eye dialect spelling ofafternoon .
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Examples
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But it cleared up this arternoon, so we walked to the store to buy milk and packing tape, so I did about four miles today despite myself.
a challenge 2007
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Ai wuz in Thpain but flew back dis arternoon an wuz nawt werf goin into teh orrifiss.
Teh diet… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Heer in teeny tiny Ingerland is teh arternoon awreddy, so we is defnitly reddy for teh alkyhawlic bevridges.
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‘Put you back half – an – hour every morning, and about another quarter towards the arternoon, and you’re a watch as can be ekalled by few and excelled by none.
Dombey and Son 2007
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He looked round the room, and at the boot again, which was still lying on the floor; appeared thoughtful for a minute; and then said ‘Well, good arternoon.’
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‘It was a pleasant arternoon when she awoke; and so quiet, that there warn’t a sound but the rippling of that blue sea without a tide, upon the shore.
David Copperfield 2007
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"An 'the werry best o' luck this arternoon, sir," cries he.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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Come to think on't, I've got an arrant there myself this arternoon -- come nigh to disremembering it.
Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry
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Brer Wolf sezzee were kinder sorry he was unable to go Satterday arternoon for to hear Brer Fox's new Opera, _Nydia, the
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 Various
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But all in wane, they wood keep running down that bewtifool face as if enamelled with its buty; and quite heedless of how they was a spiling of her new ivory cullered sattin dress that Maddam ELISE's yung ladies had been a workin on up to five a clock that werry arternoon.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 Various
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