useter
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useter
- Pronunciation spelling of used to.
- 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870[1]:
- There was JOB BIGLER, who useter leed the Skeensboro brick meetin house quire, tryin to pick his teeth with the corner of a pictur-frame, while standin before the lookin glass was WILLYAM DUNBAR vainly endevorin to ascertain if he was the Siameese Twins, or else was the lookin-glass a double-plated one.
- 1917, Stella Benson, This Is the End[2]:
- "Me an' Dusty useter 'ave a drop an' a jaw together every night for three months after we married.
- 1919, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 18, 1919[3]:
- "Then I met Spruggy Boyce, who useter drive with me in the Umpteenth Field Ambulance.