purty
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ti
Adjective
purty (comparative purtier, superlative purtiest)
- (informal) Eye dialect spelling of pretty.
- 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 22, in The Grapes of Wrath:
- Seen a purty girl down the road. Give her a big wink, too. Purty as hell, too.
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Adverb
purty (not comparable)
- Eye dialect spelling of pretty.
- 2004, Randall Williams, Weren't No Good Times: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Alabama, John F. Blair, Publisher →ISBN, page 114
- They treated us purty good but we had to work hard.
- 1988, Herbert M. Sutherland, Tall Tales of the Devil's Apron, The Overmountain Press →ISBN, page 97
- Wall, be that as it may, ol' Hosshead was a purty good citizen in his day, an' he shore did make Juneybell toe the mark.
- 2004, Randall Williams, Weren't No Good Times: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Alabama, John F. Blair, Publisher →ISBN, page 114
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