A waiter.
I snapped him up shortish. (T. T. T. 196. 2.)
The same.
I’m fair sick of ’er. (Novel Notes 212. 12.)
Uncultivated young man.
He fair settled ’im. (Sketches 201. 2.)
Uncultivated old woman.
They met accidental-like. (T. T. T. 144. 4.)
A waiter.
This tendency extends, however, to the colloquial language of the cultivated. »Precious», for instance, is almost regularly substituted for very by many persons of some education.