Afore vs Avore - What's the difference?
afore | avore |
(dialect) Before.
* Shakespeare
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, title= (nautical) In the fore part of a ship.
before
* 1989: , Bell in the tree; The Glasgow story
in advance of the time when; before
* 1611 King James Bible (Authorised Version); Ezekiel 33:22
*:Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth ...
As a verb afore
is .As an adverb avore is
before.afore
English
Alternative forms
* afforAdverb
(-)- If he have never drunk wine afore , it will go near to remove his fit.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
Preposition
(English prepositions)- "Oh aye!" his face lit up with a smile. "I mind that! Where was that?" "That was us when we all worked in the shop, afore the War." "Oh aye …?" he frowned. "Who …?" She took the photograph back from him and reached inside her apron pocket for her spectacles.
