befo

See also: befo'

English

Alternative forms

• befo'

Preposition

befo

1. (chiefly in representations of African-American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of before.
   • 1941, Work Projects Administration, “Arkansas Narratives: Volume 7”, in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States‎^[1]:

     She carried me to a young woman to nurse for her what she nursed at Mostor Wilks befo freedom.

   • 1993 October 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Bunuel's Neglected Masterpiece”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     I use t'know when Mom was alive, befo Gramps brot me out here," Meersman replies in a delivery so flat as to make her seem not so much a bad actress as a nonactress.

Anagrams

• BofE, bofe