nebber

English

Adverb

nebber (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of never. (imitating an African-American accent)
   • 1851, Unknown, Whig Against Tory‎^[1]:

     You no trudge so--you nebber get tere.

   • 1867, Lydia Maria Francis Child, A Romance of the Republic‎^[2]:

     "Yer see, Missis," said Tom, with a sly look, "dey tinks de niggers don't none ob 'em wants dare freedom, so dey nebber totes 'em whar it be."

   • 1899, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and‎^[3]:

     I 'spec's ter haf ter suppo't 'im w'en I fin' 'im, fer he nebber would work 'less'n he had ter.

   • 1897, Mabel Osgood Wright, Elliott Coues, Citizen Bird‎^[4]:

     Sho, now! come to t'ink o' Sambo, he didn't nebber like Mockers, a'ter one time he 'spicioned a Mocker tole tales on him.

   • 1902, Robert W. Chambers, The Maid-At-Arms‎^[5]:

     An' she 'low ain' nebber wore no ring.

   • 1905, Alice Hegan Rice, Sandy‎^[6]:

     Dey calls it 'Who'd 'a' Thought It,' 'ca'se you nebber would 'a' thought of puttin' a house dere.

   • 1918, Alice Hegan Rice, Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories‎^[7]:

     I done worked on lizards in de laigs, but I nebber had no 'casion to treat a cricket in de laig.

   • 1919, O. Henry, Rolling Stones‎^[8]:

     Cindy done paid out de last quarter fer dis bottle of physic, and it nebber come to no use."