f'r

English

Preposition

f'r

1. Pronunciation spelling of for.
   • 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter LXI, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 442:

     The minute we’d tetch off a blast ’n’ the fuse’d begin to sizzle, he’d give a look as much as to say: ‘Well, I’ll have to git you to excuse me,’ an’ it was surpris’n’ the way he’d shin out of that hole ’n’ go f’r a tree.

   • 1898, F[inley] P[eter] D[unne], “On Golf”, in Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, section “Mr. Dooley in Peace”, page 251:

     If ye bring ye’er wife f’r to see th’ game, an’ she has her name in th’ paper, that counts ye wan.

   • 1905 September, “The Crutch”, in Book of the Royal Blue, volume VIII, number 12, Baltimore, Md., page 24, column 2:

     I was up to th’ hospital f’r weeks an’ weeks an’ weeks, an’ I was there on a bed, an’ by me on ’nother bed was a big man who had been blew up by a ’splosion somewhere.

Related terms

• f'rever
• f'rexample
• f'rinstance

Jersey Dutch

Etymology

From Dutch voor, from Middle Dutch vore, voor, from Old Dutch fora, fore, from Proto-Germanic *furai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fər/

Preposition

f'r

1. for
2. before
3. in front of

Alternative forms

• för