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this here

this here determiner: this.

Determiner

this here (plural these here)

  1. (colloquial, emphatic) this
    • Well, the receipt should have reached this here party on the Thursday morning, as it were, — I posted it on the Wednesday night […]1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
    • I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins; but this here town is five times as big.1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC

Forms of this here

pluralthese here
alternative formthis 'ere
alternative formthis ere

Questions about this here

What does this here mean?
This here means this.
What part of speech is this here?
This here is a determiner.

Words near this here in the dictionary

  1. this close
  2. this coming
  3. this day six months
  4. this evening
  5. this guy
  6. this here
  7. this instant
  8. this is a book
  9. this is it
  10. this is me
  11. this is not a drill

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