wi'

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See also: wi, WI, wi-, w/i, .wi, wī, and Wī

English

Preposition

wi'

(poetic, dialectal) with
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  Let's all sink wi' th' king.
- 1871, S. T. C., The Court and the Kiln: A Story on the Church Catechism, page 187:
  He's going to get some pots and pans Market-day, and then we'se going up country wi' 'em.

Derived terms

mad wi' it

Anagrams

I.W.

K'iche'

Noun

wi'

head
ear of maize

Scots

Preposition

wi'

Alternative spelling of wi

Yola

Preposition

wi'

Alternative form of wee (“with”)
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
  Dinna mell wi' it.
  Don't meddle with it.
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:
  Outh o'mee hoane ch'ull no part wi' Wathere.
  Out of my hand I'll not part with Walter.
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 6-8:
  Na oure gladès ana whilke we dellt wi' mattoke, an zing t'oure caulès wi plou,
  In our valleys where we were digging with the spade, or as we whistled to our horses in the plough,

References

Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56