fer-instance

Noun

1. Alternative form of for instance.
   • “If it ain’t already coming at you, you bluff. Stand still, make loud noises. Try to look bigger, like maybe standing on a stump or opening a big umbrella.” / “Gee! I forgot my umbrella! Can I borrow yours?” / “Naw, I...
   • To give you a fer-instance, it was whispered to me not five minutes before you come in here that the same thieves did over the wine warehouse as did the brewery. - 2003, Don Gutteridge, Solemn Vows (a Marc Edwards...
   • Take one scene, as a fer-instance: Goldman’s script very carefully sets up, via Westley’s explanation for Vizzini, the elusive qualities of iocane powder, the perfect poison—colorless, odorless, tasteless, impossible to...