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pardner colloq. (orig. U.S.).|ˈpɑːdnə(r)|
Also † pardener.
Var. partner n. Cf. pard2.
1795B. Dearborn Columbian Gram. 137 Improprieties, commonly called Vulgarisms... Pardener for Partner. 1837A. Sherwood Gazetteer Georgia (ed. 3) 71 Pardner, for partner. 1847F. A. Buck Let. 23 Feb. in Yankee Trader in Gold Rush (1930) 4 Mr. Johnson has taken a pardner, a Mr. Hollister, who appears to be a very smart man. Ibid. 5 The young lady who was my pardner gave me a private lesson beforehand so that I walked through it pretty well. 1857Observer 12 Apr. 2/4 The Punch and Judy man..cleared from {pstlg}2 to {pstlg}3 a week, he and his ‘pardner’. a1861T. Winthrop John Brent (1862) vii. 71, I don't mean sech. I mean jolly dogs, like me and my pardener. Ibid. xiii. 140 ‘Pardners for a kerdrille!’ cried Jake. 1864Dickens Mut. Fr. (1865) I. i. i. 4 ‘Arn't been eating nothing as has disagreed with you, have you, pardner?’ ‘Why, yes, I have,’ said Gaffer. ‘I have been swallowing too much of that word, Pardner. I am no pardner of yours.’ 1875J. Miller First Fam'lies Sierras (1876) v. 55 That evening Limber Tim..told..what a hero his ‘pardner’ had become. 1882D. Pidgeon Engineer's Holiday I. xvii. 200 The mine is worked by two ‘pardners’ who dig and wash by turns. 1907S. E. White Arizona Nights i. xi. 178 It's money I haven't got, and can't get unless I let somebody in as pardner. 1926Ladies' Home Jrnl. Nov. 24 ‘There’, she added as she crouched once more beside her pardner. 1952M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke xiii. 196 ‘Now, pardner,’ he said. They were both great readers of Westerns. 1973R. Perry Nowhere Man iv. 59 ‘Well, pardner,’ he said..overdoing both the western accent and the sarcasm, ‘it seems I'm stuck with you.’ |
