this here

English

Alternative forms

• this 'ere (colloquial)
• this ere (colloquial)

Determiner

this here (plural these here)

1. (colloquial, emphatic) this
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     Well, the receipt should have reached this here party on the Thursday morning, as it were, — I posted it on the Wednesday night […]

   • 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business‎:

     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.

See also

• that there

Anagrams

• etherish, threeish