brer
Speech parts
1. brer - Noun
2. Brer - Proper noun
Meaning
brer (plural brers)
Alternative spelling of br'er, contraction of brother.
Brer
An informal title for a man
Examples
I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.
Brer Fox, he lay low.
Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side er de head. Right dar's whar he broke his merlasses jug. His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. De tar hilt 'im.
Lear 2007, p. 34 The Brer Rabbit stories of Joel Chandler Harris had been family favourites, and she later studied his Uncle Remus stories and illustrated them.
I confess that some of my favorite stories were tales narrated in dialect by "Uncle Remus," an old Southern black man, about "Brer Rabbit" and his forest friends.
Brer Bales pours the latest batch of endurance fuel into bags to be shipped at Tailwind Nutrition's production facility in Bayfield on Tuesday afternoon.