wi'
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English
[edit]Preposition
[edit]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
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]K'iche'
[edit]Noun
[edit]wi'
Scots
[edit]Preposition
[edit]wi'
- Alternative spelling of wi
Yola
[edit]Preposition
[edit]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
[edit]- 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