Meaning of her | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Honorific alternative letter-case form of her, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
   alt-of, honorific
2. The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc, or (dialect) as a subject without a conjunction.
3. She, her.

Equivalents

Examples

“Give⟳ it to her (after preposition)”

“He wrote her a letter (indirect object)”

“He treated her for a cold (direct⟳ object)”

“Him and her went for a walk⟳ (with a conjunction; proscribed)”

“Her's a bosting wench! (as a subject wihout a conjunction; dialectal)”

“"Then what became of her?" "Her? Which ‘her’? The park⟳ is full of ‘hers’." "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss⟳ Hartuff."”

“I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.”

““I’ll bet⟳ ’er wor a toe-rag,” said Morel, following up his joke. ¶ “Don’t you be so cheeky about a queen,” said Annie.”

“"It's all right," he was shouting. "Come⟳ out, Mrs. Beaver. Come⟳ out, Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve. It's all right! It isn't her!" This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk⟳ when they are excited; I mean⟳, in Narnia—in our world they usually don't talk⟳ at all.”

“Every day I had to watch⟳ as him and her went off for long walks together, and each night I had to go to my lonely, cold bed with the thought that they were sharing the same one […]”

“"What's 'er say⟳?" 'Er said: "Am yow a Yam Yam?", Ah said "Ar bab, I am!".”

“It is certain that Juan Diego was a virtuous man, who tried to direct⟳ his life along the road of righteousness, of honesty, of virtue, and to make⟳ all that pleased God bloom, who was chosen by the Mother of God Herself to be Her [i.e. the mother's] messenger.”

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