yeh

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yeh

(jɛə)

interj

a variant spelling of yeah

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yeh

adv (Brit inf) → ja; yeh, whatever → mal sehen, passt schon (inf)

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"Well, yeh kin b'lieve me er not, jest as yeh like.

Don't go a-thinkin' you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh can't.

"I've knet yeh eight pair of socks, Henry, and I've put in all yer best shirts, because I want my boy to be jest as warm and comf'able as anybody in the army.

I don't want yeh to ever do any- thing, Henry, that yeh would be 'shamed to let me know about.

"Yeh must allus remember yer father, too, child, an' remember he never drunk a drop of licker in his life, and seldom swore a cross oath.

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"But yeh'd git acquainted with me after we was married," said Sam.

"Yeh're a likely-looking girl and hev a right-smart way o' stepping," said Sam.

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The little girl upbraided him, "Youse allus fightin', Jimmie, an' yeh knows it puts mudder out when yehs come home half dead, an' it's like we'll all get a poundin'."

"Let the damned kid alone for a minute, will yeh, Mary?

"Are yehs hurted much, Jimmie?" she whispered timidly.

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"I'll break yer ugly face for yeh in a minute," he announced in wrath-thick tones.

"Sure, an' a bad beatin' it was," he acknowledged, "but yeh showed the grit of a bunch of wildcats.