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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