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Definition of Sirree
1. sir [n -S] - See also: sir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sirree
Literary usage of Sirree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Sometimes, as if not already puerile enough, the word " bob" is added; as, " Yes,
sirree, bob." While hearing a case, the attorney stated in his plea that ..."
2. The Catholic Record (1871)
"sirree, Bob ;" an emphatic assent or negative. " Yes, sir ! ... The man stood up
in a defiant attitude, palpably drunk, and replied, " No, sirree, Bob ! ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"No, sirree," said he, ... away at an unlighted cigar—"no, sirree ; that aint my
grit во ways. Jist you take a turn ш the Cascini, and leave me to deal with ..."
4. Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada by Amelia Matilda Murray (1856)
"the singular affirmation ' Yes, sirree," or ' No, sirree,' which was made use
use of among the Adirondack Mountains, to express something very positive. ..."
5. A History of the Sikhs: From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the by Joseph Davey Cunningham (1853)
"4th. The next portion of the Grunt'h is divided into thirty-one sections, known
by their distinguishing forms verse, as follows: —• 1. sirree Hag. 12. ..."
6. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and by India Foreign and Political Dept (1892)
"... until the Maharajah sirree Sewa Jey Sing arrives at years of discretion, in
performing the business committed to our charge by the Durbar and executing ..."
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