po', a.
(pəʊ)
Repr. a U.S. dial. pronunc. of poor a. (n.)
| 1893 H. A. Shands Some Peculiarites of Speech in Mississippi 50 Po'.., Negro for poor. 1911 F. W. Rolt-Wheeler Boy with U.S. Census 47 The po' white..is goin' to be only a memory like the backwoodsman o' the time o' Dan'l Boone. 1926 Opportunity Mar. 84/1 Dey kilt my po' daddy. 1945 Gumbo Ya Ya (Writers' Program, Louisiana) ii. 27, I sell to the rich, I sell to the po'; I'm gonna sell the lady Standin' in that do'. 1968 Globe Mag. (Toronto) 17 Feb. 18/4 Grey Owl..was Archie Bellaney, born..to a ne'er-do-well Englishman and..a po' white girl from Florida. |