erse

IPA: ˈɝs

Root Word: Erse

(dated, sometimes offensive) Either of the Gaelic languages of Ireland and Scotland.

(dated, sometimes offensive) Connected with Ireland or the Highlands of Scotland, or to the Gaelic languages spoken in those places.

Examples of "erse" in Sentences

She done dead; I done year 'er sesso [39]' erse'f.
Dosn't thou 'ear my' erse's legs, as they canters awaäy?
Of co'se, ef you des tackle 'er p'omiskyus she ain't gwine bother' erse'f ter play 'cordin' ter rule; but --
Quite aside from this Chaucerian "erse" slapping, Clemens had also a semi-serious purpose, that of reproducing a past time as he saw it in
De gal, she tuck'n shuck 'erse'f' fo 'de lookin'-glass a time er two, en den she tipt ter de do' en open 'it little ways en peep out des lak she skeer'd some un gwine ter hit' er a clip side de head.
An 'now, dey tell me, Silvy she got him down to shirt-sleeves -- splittin' rails, wid his breeches gallused up wid twine, while she sets in de cabin do 'wid a pink caliker Mother Hubbard wrapper on fannin' 'erse'f.
Then she seemed to come to 'erse'f, an' said, jest as ef nothin 'oncommon had occurred:' Well, gentlemen, why don't you move 'im under a shelter?' an 'with that she squatted down at his head, an' breshed the hair off'n his forehead mighty gentle-like.