this here

English

Alternative forms

  • this 'ere (colloquial)
  • this ere (colloquial)

Determiner

this here (plural these here)

  1. (colloquial, emphatic) this
    • 1897 March 13 – June 19, Richard Marsh [pseudonym; Richard Bernard Heldmann], The Beetle (The Adelphi Library; 4), London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], published 1920, →OCLC:
      Well, the receipt should have reached this here party on the Thursday morning, as it were, — I posted it on the Wednesday night […]
    • 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
      I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins; but this here town is five times as big.

Descendants

  • > Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: disya

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