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▪ I. brer colloq. (orig. U.S.).|brɛə(r)|
[Representing an American Negro or southern U.S. pronunc. of brother n.]
Brother.
1881J. C. Harris Uncle Remus i. 17 Arter Brer Fox bin doin' all dat he could fer ter ketch Brer Rabbit. 1889G. B. Shaw London Music 1888–89 (1937) 145 Last night we had Brer Jean [de Reszke] as Raoul and Brer Edouard as Marcel. 1895Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 107 No one seems to know particularly where Brer Coon lives.
▪ II. brer
obs. form of brier. |