'clare
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[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Verb
[edit]'clare (third-person singular simple present 'clares, present participle 'claring, simple past and past participle 'clared)
- Pronunciation spelling of declare, representing African-American Vernacular English.
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 107:
- “Tea Cake, Ah ’clare Ah don’t know whut tuh make outa you. You’se so crazy.