borry

English

Verb

borry (third-person singular simple present borries, present participle borrying, simple past and past participle borried)

  1. (dialect) Pronunciation spelling of borrow.
    • 1885, Mark Twain, chapter 21, in Huckleberry Finn:
      You pay me back the chaws you've awready borry'd off'n me, Lafe Buckner, then I'll loan you one or two ton of it, and won't charge you no back
    • 2019, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory:
      Reckon I better be steppin' over to Vander's and see can I borry their cow.
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