befo
See also: befo'
English
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- (chiefly in representations of African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of before.
- 1941, Work Projects Administration, “Arkansas Narratives: Volume 7”, in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States[1]:
- She carried me to a young woman to nurse for her what she nursed at Mostor Wilks befo freedom.
- 1993 October 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Bunuel's Neglected Masterpiece”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
- I use t'know when Mom was alive, befo Gramps brot me out here," Meersman replies in a delivery so flat as to make her seem not so much a bad actress as a nonactress.
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Spanish
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editbefo (feminine befa, masculine plural befos, feminine plural befas)
- Alternative form of belfo
Further reading
edit- “befo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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