ark at ee

Phrase

'ark at 'ee

1. (informal, Bristol and West Country) Listen to you; listen to yourself; listen to it.
   • ‘Look at that water! No wonder Duddle said he wouldn’t dare take the raft down this way; it’s dreadful!’ / Togget pointed ahead. ‘Yurr oi think et wursens yonder, ’ark at ee roaren et makes!’1995, Brian Jacques, The Outcast of Redwall: A Tale from Redwall (A Tale of Redwall; 8), London: Hutchinson, →ISBN; republished as Outcast of Redwall, London: Red Fox, 2007, →ISBN, book 3 (The...
2. (informal, Bristol and West Country) Used to draw attention to something or someone.
   • Then a lady came into the shop and saw the T-shirts and said ‘ark at ee’ so that was the next one we did.2012 March 29, Emma Kasprzak, “Yeah but no but: Is the Bristol accent gert lush?”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2017