'ee
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.61 in modern English
2
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
1
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
Pronunciation spelling of ye (second person pronoun) used like an enclitic, after a consonant
Archaic; Colloquial
Example Sentences
- "Oh, all that's fair; but hark'ee, lads, I must have no grumbling on St. Patrick's Day; so here, take this, and divide it amongst you."
- ""Look'ee here, Pip," said he, laying his hand on my arm in a suddenly altered and subdued manner; "first of all, look'ee here. I forgot myself half a minute ago. What I said was low; that's what it was; low. […]"
- ""Will 'ee have some?" said Martha Ann presently, holding out her apron filled with rosy quarrendens."
- "If a sun-bonneted market woman got in with us, mother could never resist talking to her, and answering the invariable Cornish question: "Wheer be 'ee goin'?" Then would follow the astonished "From Lunnon are 'ee? Aw, my deer!""