yerb
English
Noun
yerb (plural yerbs)
- Eye dialect spelling of herb.
- 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller:
- "At the same time we got a yerb" (such was his pronunciation) "on the hills, which some call lion-heart, and others snake-head."
- 1895, Charles Egbert Craddock, The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge:
- When he ventured to sneeze, Mrs. Roxby compounded and administered a "yerb tea," a sovereign remedy against colds, which he tasted on compulsion and in great doubt, and swallowed with alacrity and confidence, finding its basis the easily recognizable "toddy."
- 1911, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Brother Copas:
- The ancients, by which I mean the Greeks, set amazin' store by the yerb.
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Anagrams
- Brey, Byer, Erby, byre